George A. Miller
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George A. Miller (born February 3 1920) is a famous professor of psychology at Princeton University, whose most famous work was The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information, which was published in 1956 in The Psychological Review.
In the linguistics community, Miller is well-known for overseeing the development of WordNet, a semantic network for the English language. Development began in 1985, and over the years, the project has received about $3 million of funding, mainly from government agencies interested in machine translation.
External links
- George A. Miller's web page at Princeton University (http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/%7Egeo/)
- Miller's "Psychology as a Means of Promoting Human Welfare," 1969 Presidential Address to the American Psychological Association (http://ogch.tripod.com/pmphwgm.html)ja:ジョージ・ミラー