Dan Jurafsky
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| birth_place = Yonkers, New York, US https://www.informit.com/authors/bio/f125e767-86c1-4998-9b6d-438bf98e4b22
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| fields = Linguistics and Computer Science
| workplaces = Stanford University (2003— )
University of Colorado Boulder (1996–2003)
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| awards = MacArthur Fellowship (2002)
NSF CAREER Award (1998)
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Daniel Jurafsky is a professor of linguistics and computer science at Stanford University, and also an author. With Daniel Gildea, he is known for developing the first automatic system for semantic role labeling (SRL). He is the author of The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu (2014) and a textbook on speech and language processing (2000). For the former, Jurafsky was named a finalist for the James Beard Award. {{cite press release |last= Borden |first= Maggie |date= March 31, 2015 |title= Meet the Book Nominees for the 2015 James Beard Awards|url= https://www.jamesbeard.org/blog/meet-book-nominees-2015-james-beard-awards |access-date=2024-10-03}} Jurafsky was given a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002.
Education
Jurafsky received his B.A in linguistics (1983) and Ph.D. in computer science (1992), both at University of California, Berkeley; and then a postdoc at International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley (1992–1995).
Academic life
He is the author of The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu (W. W. Norton & Company, 2014).{{cite news| url= https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/opinion/sunday/daniel-jurafsky.html |work= The New York Times Sunday Review | title= Daniel Jurafsky| date= May 11, 2014| publisher= | access-date= }} With James H. Martin, he wrote the textbook Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition (Prentice Hall, 2000).
The first automatic system for semantic role labeling (SRL, sometimes also referred to as "shallow semantic parsing") was developed by Daniel Gildea and Daniel Jurafsky to automate the FrameNet annotation process in 2002; SRL has since become one of the standard tasks in natural language processing.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}
Personal life
Jurafsky is Jewish. He is married. {{Cite news |last=Murphy |first=Kate |date=2014-05-10 |title=Opinion {{!}} Daniel Jurafsky |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/opinion/sunday/daniel-jurafsky.html |access-date=2023-11-24 |issn=0362-4331}} They reside in San Francisco, California.
Selected works
- 2009. [http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/slp.html Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition], 2nd Edition. (with James H. Martin) Prentice-Hall. {{ISBN|978-0131873216}}
- 2014. The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu. W. W. Norton & Company. {{ISBN|978-0393240832}}
- 2023. [https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/ed3book_jan72023.pdf Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition], 3rd Edition draft. (with James H. Martin)
Honors and awards
- 1998. NSF Career Award
- 2002. MacArthur Fellowship
- 2019. LSA Fellow
- 2022. Atkinson Prizes in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences{{cite web | url=http://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/psychological-cognitive-sciences.html | title=Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/ Dan Jurafsky's Home Page] at Stanford University
- [https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/pubs.html Bibliography of works by Dan Jurafsky]
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Category:Stanford University Department of Linguistics faculty
Category:Stanford University School of Engineering faculty
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Category:Computational linguistics researchers
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