Wendy Lehnert
{{short description|American computer scientist}}
Wendy Grace Lehnert is an American computer scientist specializing in natural language processing and known for her pioneering use of machine learning in natural language processing.{{r|em}} She is a professor emerita at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.{{r|facdir}}
Education and career
Lehnert earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Portland State University in 1972, and a master's degree from Yeshiva University in 1974.{{r|facdir}} She became a student of Roger Schank at Yale University, completing her Ph.D. there in 1977 with a dissertation on The Process of Question Answering,{{r|mg}} and was hired by Yale as an assistant professor. She moved to the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1982.{{r|facdir}} At Amherst, her doctoral students have included Claire Cardie and Ellen Riloff.{{r|mg}} She retired in 2011.{{r|em}}
Books
Lehnert has written both scholarly and popular books on computing, including:
- The Process of Question Answering: A Computer Simulation of Cognition (L. Erlbaum Associates, 1978){{r|pqa}}
- Light on the Web: Essentials to Make the 'Net Work for You (Addison-Wesley, 1981)
- Strategies for Natural Language Processing (with Martin Ringle, L. Erlbaum Associates, 1982)
- The Web Wizard's Guide to Freeware and Shareware (Addison-Wesley, 1982)
- Internet 101: A Beginner's Guide to the Internet and the World Wide Web (Addison-Wesley, 1998)
- The Web Wizard's Guide to HTML (Addison-Wesley, 2001)
- Web 101: Making the Net Work for You (with Richard Kopec, Addison-Wesley; 3rd ed., 2007)
Recognition
In 1991, Lehnert was elected as an AAAI Fellow.{{r|aaai}}
References
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External links
- [https://people.cs.umass.edu/~lehnert/ Home page]
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Category:Natural language processing researchers
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