Bernard Victorri
Biographical Information
Bernard Victorri is Director of research CNRS, Lattice Laboratory, ENS, Montrouge,
France. Bernard Victorri trained as a mathematician before turning to the field of language
sciences. In 1981 he obtained his PhD from the University of Montreal for work on
mathematical modeling of the cognitive processes. He was appointed Professor of Mathematics
at the Polytechnical School of Montreal while also leading a group conducting
research into modeling of neurocognitive processes at the Montreal Institute of Biomedical
Engineering. In 1984 he returned to his native France to pursue his research, first at
the University of Caen and later as a director of research at the CNRS. He has made major
contributions to a wide variety of new fields of study, including semantic modeling, analysis
and modeling of acoustic variation and automation of processes such as information
extraction and lexical disambiguation. He is also particularly interested in the issue of the
emergence and structuring of human language. In the book Les origines du langage (2006)
of which he is a co-author, he elaborates the theory that the emergence of the narrative
faculty has played a more important part in the evolution of modern mankind’s social
comportment than has the acquisition of a “higher intelligence” per se. Bernard Victorri
heads the “Languages, Language and Cognition” team at the Lattice Laboratory, CNRS
(Languages, Texts, Computer Processing, Cognition) since 2000. |
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