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Joao Marcos

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Oct 28, 2024, 3:14:19 PMOct 28

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With great sadness, we announce that Prof. Pavel Materna, aged 94, passed away peacefully on October 25 in Prague. Pavel was a Czech logician, philosopher and musician. He was a follower of Pavel Tichy, the founder of Transparent Intensional Logic (TIL). Pavel Materna contributed a lot to the development of TIL, in which he developed an original theory of concepts. In this conception, concepts are defined as abstract procedures that can be viewed as ‘instructions’ encoded by natural-language expressions on obtaining an object (if any) denoted by a given expression. Applying TIL to natural-language processing was Pavel’s primary professional interest. He was known internationally for his influential research in this area, where he achieved significant results and published numerous papers and books.

Besides, Pavel was a good friend, joyful in discussions and a great musician and pianist. We had a lot of fun listening to his piano playing on conference evenings. He will be missed by all who love him.