Dan Jurafsky

Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in Humanities and Professor of Computer Science

Postdoc, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley (1995)
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, Computer Science (1992)
B.A., University of California at Berkeley, Linguistics (1983)
Academic Appointments
Professor, Linguistics
Professor, Computer Science
Member, Bio-X
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
Member, Editorial Boards, Annual Review of Linguistics, Computer Speech and Language, Computational Linguistics
Chair, ACL SIGHAN (2009 - 2011)
Associate Director, LSA Summer Institute, Stanford (2007 - 2007)
Member, Executive Committee, North American Association of Computational Linguistics (2001 - 2002)
Chair, Linguistic Society of America Committee on Computing, Linguistic Society (2000 - 2000)
Honors & Awards
MacArthur Fellowship, MacArthur Foundation (2003)
James Beard Award Finalist, James Beard Foundation (2015)
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (2012-2013)
Fillmore Professor, Linguistic Society of America (2015)
NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (1998)
Roger V. Gould Prize, American Journal of Sociology (2015)
Cozzarelli Prize, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2017)
Best Paper, EMNLP 2013 (2013)
Best Paper, WWW 2013 (2013)
Best Paper, ACL/COLING 2006 (2006)
Dan Jurafsky is Professor and Chair of Linguistics and Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University.

He is the recipient of a 2002 MacArthur Fellowship, is the co-author with Jim Martin of the widely-used textbook "Speech and Language Processing", and co-created with Chris Manning one of the first massively open online courses, Stanford's course in Natural Language Processing. His trade book "The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu" was a finalist for the 2015 James Beard Award.

Dan received a B.A in Linguistics in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992 from the University of California at Berkeley, was a postdoc 1992-1995 at the International Computer Science Institute, and was on the faculty of the University of Colorado, Boulder until moving to Stanford in 2003.

His research ranges widely across computational linguistics; special interests include natural language understanding, human-human conversation, the relationship between human and machine processing, and the application of natural language processing to the social and behavioral sciences. He also works on the linguistics of food and the linguistics of Chinese.

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