Zellig S. Harris

1909-1992

This web site is dedicated to the work of Zellig Harris in language, grammar, and information, and explores current related research in linguistics, computer science, mathematics, politics, and philosophy of science.

Major Contributions Overview: development of a theory of language over a 60 year period
Formal methods of analysis: linguistics as an empirical science, with applications in natural language processing, parsing, and generation.
Theory of science sublanguages: applications in the organization and management of information in medicine, science, and technology.
Theory of Information: applications in data processing, information extraction, information retrieval, knowledge acquisition and machine learning.
Universal theory of language with applications in language comparison and classification, language acquisition, and language evolution.
Book The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and Information into the 21st Century
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002
Conference The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and Information into the 21st Century
University of Pennsylvania, January 2003

Symposium Program
Proceedings

Computer Applications Medical Language Processor
Medical Language Extraction and Encoding
ESPOIR Project
Proteus Project
Book Reviews A grammar of English on Mathematical Principles
Language and Information
The Form of Information in Science
The Transformation of Capitalist Society
In Remembrance by William C. Watt
by Henry Hiz
by Peter Matthews
by Bruce Nevin
Other Resources Wikipedia: Zellig Harris
Wikipedia: Operator Grammar
The Research Community
Bibliography
A Minimalist Program for Linguistics
Harris the Revolutionary: Phonemic Theory

This site is maintained by Stephen B. Johnson
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University