- Eric Brill
Dr. Eric Brill is a computer scientist specializing in Natural Language Processing. He is famous for his Brill Tagger, a supervised part of speech tagger.
- Peter Norvig
Peter Norvig is an American computer scientist. He is currently the Director of Research (formerly Director of Search Quality) at Google Inc.. He is a Fellow and Councilor of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and co-author, with Stuart Russell, of "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach", now the standard college text.
- James Pustejovsky
James Pustejovsky is a professor of computer science at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. His main topic of research is Natural Language Processing. Pustejovsky proposed Generative Lexicon theory which is an emerging theory in lexical semantics. His other interests include temporal reasoning, events, information extraction, computational linguistics.
- Aravind Joshi
Aravind Krishana Joshi was born in 1929 in Pune, India. He is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science in the computer science department of the University of Pennsylvania. Joshi defined the tree-adjoining grammar formalism which is often used in computational linguistics and natural language processing. Joshi studied at Pune University and the Indian Institute of Science, …
- Tim Finin
Tim Finin is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). He has over 30 years of experience in the applications of Artificial Intelligence to problems in information systems, intelligent interfaces and robotics and is currently working on the theory and applications of intelligent software agents, the semantic web, and mobile computing. He holds degrees from MIT and the University of Illinois.
- Joseph Weizenbaum
Joseph Weizenbaum (Berlin, January 8, 1923) is a professor emeritus of computer science at MIT. Born in Berlin to Jewish parents, he escaped Nazi Germany in 1936, emigrating with his family to the United States. He started studying mathematics in 1941 in the US, but his studies were interrupted by the war, during which he served in the military. Around 1950 he worked on analog computers, and helped create a digital computer for Wayne State University.
- Frederick Jelinek
Frederick Jelinek (born 18 November, 1932 in Prague) is a researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing. Jelinek's early career produced fundamental contributions to information theory and coding. He later became a pioneer in applying statistical modeling to speech recognition and natural language processing. He and his colleagues were the first to apply hidden Markov models to these tasks.
- Boris Katz
Boris Katz was born in Chişinău, Moldova. He was able to get out of USSR with the help of a U.S. senator, before the end of the cold war. Currently, he is a Principal Research Scientist (Computer Scientist) at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and head of the Laboratory's InfoLab Group. His research interests include natural language processing and understanding, machine learning and intelligent information access.
- Karen Spärck Jones
Karen Spärck Jones FBA was a British computer scientist. Karen Spärck Jones was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England. Her father was Owen Jones, a lecturer in chemistry, and her mother was Ida Spärck, a Norwegian who moved to Britain during World War II. Spärck Jones was educated at a grammar school and then Girton College, Cambridge from 1953 to 1956, reading History. Initially she became a school teacher. She worked at Cambridge's Computer Laboratory from 1974, …
- Henry Kucera
Henry Kucera is a Czech linguist who was a pioneer in corpus linguistics and linguistic software. Kucera was born in the former Czechoslovakia. When the Communists came to power in 1948, his studies in philosophy and linguistics were interrupted. In the 1950s, Kucera found his way to Brown University, in the United States, where he was able to further pursue his interest in linguistics (he remained there for the rest of his career).
- Walter Savitch
Professor Savitch is well know for his work in complexity theory, which includes the first example of a complete language, namely a language complete for the storage class log n. This fundamental work led directly to the now widespread interest in complete problems. Savitch's research interests include computational complexity of parallel programs, with an emphasis on automatically converting serial complexity bounds to parallel complexity bounds.
- Robby Garner
Robby Garner (b. 1963) is a natural language programmer and software developer. He won the 1998 and 1999 Loebner Prize Contests with the program called Albert One, and is currently living in Cedartown, Georgia He is listed in the 2001 Guinness Book of World Records as having written the "most human" computer program. Garner considers himself to be a computational behaviorist after the term coined by Dr. Thomas Whalen in 1995.
- Victor Yngve
Victor Yngve (born about 1920) is professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Chicago. He was one of the earliest researchers in computational linguistics and natural language processing, the use of computers to analyze and process languages. He created the first program to produce random but well-formed output sentences, given a text (a children's book called "Engineer Small and the Little Train").
- William A. Martin
William A. Martin (1938-1981) was a computer scientist from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. After graduating from Northwest Classen High School, where he was a state wrestling champion, he attended MIT where received bachelor's (1960), master's (1962), and PhD (1967) degrees in electrical engineering. While obtaining those degrees, he worked as a teaching assistant at MIT (beginning in 1960).
- Michael Loren Mauldin
Michael "Fuzzy" L. Mauldin was the founder of the Lycos Web Search Engine company. He developed the Lycos Search Engine while working on the Informedia Digital Library project at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his bachelor's degree from Rice University in 1981. From Carnegie Mellon University, he received his master's degree in 1983 and his Ph.D. in 1989. Dr. Mauldin has written two books, 10 refereed papers and several technical reports on natural language, …
- Paco Nathan
Paco has 25 years experience in software R&D. He holds a BS in Math Sciences and MS in Computer Science from Stanford, worked at NASA/Ames, Bell Labs, Motorola, and has focused on early stage tech start-ups for several years. Among those, Paco co-founded FringeWare in 1992, one of the early ecommerce firms. He's written for several periodicals, including Wired , O'Reilly Network , bOING-bOING , Mondo 2000 .
- Andrew Borthwick
Andrew Borthwick is Principal Scientist at Spock Networks, where he focuses primarily on information extraction (extracting information about people from the web), profile matching (do Profile A and Profile B represent the same person?), and search.He lives in Palo Alto with his wife and two children.
- Vikram Dendi
- Merle Tenney
Designer, developer, and evangelist of software for the international marketplace. Internationalized and localized platforms and applications on Windows, Macintosh, and Palm. Developed linguistically savvy tools for writers and translators in major world languages. Broad understanding of user requirements and enabling technologies for diverse languages and cultures. Lived in Europe and Latin America; worked extensively in Asia; proficient in Spanish and French. Open-minded and creative . . .
- Julien Lemoine
I am currently working for Exalead in Paris, France as a R&D Software Engineer.I am working on core technologies for exalead web search engine (http://www.exalead.com), more especially on indexing data structures, distributed computing and advanced natural language processing.I am mad about algorithmic and more especially about innovation and technical challenges.
- Noah Smith
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- Jim Satloff
James Satloff is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Inform Technologies, LLC and Chairman of the Board and Director of Liberty Skis Corporation. He was previously the CEO and President of C.E. Unterberg, Towbin, the Executive Managing Director at Standard & Poor’s institutional markets business, Vice President at Bankers Trust Company, Vice President at Salomon Brothers and a Senior Manager at Touche Ross & Co.
- Piotr Fuglewicz
- Chris Manning
Christopher Manning Associate Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics
- Alex Acero
Alex Acero , an area manager for Speech Technology, Natural Language, and Communication and Collaboration. Acero became a computer scientist and linguist after attending a demo fair where he was captivated by a computer system that helped deaf children learn to form words properly. Acero has been working ever since on viable speech technologies and devices, successfully transferring them to products and helping hundreds of thousands of users.
- Amanda Stent
- Luit Gazendam
- Galen Andrew
I am a Research Software Developer in the Text Mining, Search and Navigation group at Microsoft Research . My research interests include machine learning, natural language processing, recommender systems, scientific computing and information retrieval.
- Anthony Aue
- Amanda Stent
- Lillian Lee
Lillian Lee Associate Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University
- Lukas Biewald
- Nicolas Dessaigne
- Eric Ringger
- William B Dolan
Bill Dolan is a Senior Researcher and Manager of the Natural Language Processing Group.
- Joseph Weizenbaum
JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM, PH.D., professor emeritus of computer science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author, _Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation_
- Rj Martin
- Eric Crestan
- Satoshi Sekine
- Michael Gamon
Michael Gamon works in the Natural Language Processing group at Microsoft Research.