Christopher David Manning (born September 18, 1965) is a
computer scientist
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and
applied linguist whose research in the areas of
natural language processing
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,
artificial intelligence and
machine learning is considered highly influential. He is the current Director of th
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL)
Manning is best known for co-developing
GloVe
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word vectors and the bilinear or multiplicative form of
attention
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in
artificial neural networks and for his books ''Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing'' (1999) and ''Introduction to Information Retrieval'' (2008). He is the
Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning and a professor of
Linguistics and Computer Science at
Stanford University
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. He was previously President of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (2015) and he has received an honorary doctorate from the
University of Amsterdam (2023).
Manning received a BA (Hons) degree majoring in mathematics, computer science, and linguistics from the
Australian National University (1989) and a PhD in linguistics from Stanford (1994), under the guidance of
Joan Bresnan.
He was an assistant professor at
Carnegie Mellon University
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(1994–96) and a lecturer at the
University of Sydney (1996–99) before returning to Stanford as an assistant professor. At Stanford, he was promoted to associate professor in 2006 and to full professor in 2012. He was elected an
AAAI Fellow in 2010.
Manning's linguistic work includes his dissertation ''Ergativity: Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations'' (1996), a monograph
''Complex Predicates and Information Spreading in LFG'' (1999), and his work developing
Universal Dependencies, from which he is the namesake of
Manning's Law. He has also led development of open source
computational linguistics
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software including
CoreNLP, Stanza, and GloVe.
Manning's PhD students include
Dan Klein, Richard Socher, and
Sepandar Kamvar.
[ In 2021, he joined AIX Ventures]
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1965 births
Living people
Australian computer scientists
Australian National University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Stanford University faculty
Natural language processing researchers
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Academic staff of the University of Sydney
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Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence