Daniel Jurafsky is a professor of

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and

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Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, and also an author. With Daniel Gildea, he is known for developing the first automatic system for

semantic role labeling In natural language processing, semantic role labeling (also called shallow semantic parsing or slot-filling) is the process that assigns labels to words or phrases in a sentence that indicates their semantic role in the sentence, such as that of ...

(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). Jurafsky was given a

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in 2002.

Education

Jurafsky received his B.A in linguistics (1983) and Ph.D. in computer science (1992), both at

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

; and then a postdoc at

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, Berkeley (1992–1995).

Academic life

He is the author of ''The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu'' (W. W. Norton & Company, 2014). With James H. Martin, he wrote the textbook ''Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to

Natural Language Processing Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human language, in particular how to program computers to pro ...

Computational Linguistics Computational linguistics is an Interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic questions. In general, comput ...

, and

Speech Recognition Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers with the m ...

'' (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

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annotation process in 2002; SRL has since become one of the standard tasks in

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Personal life

Jurafsky resides in

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Selected works

* 2009
''Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition''
2nd Edition. (with James H. Martin) Prentice-Hall. * 2014. ''The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu''. W. W. Norton & Company.

Honors and awards

* 1998. NSF Career Award * 2002.

* 2019. LSA Fellow

References

External links

Dan Jurafsky's Home Page
at Stanford University *

Living people American non-fiction writers MacArthur Fellows Stanford University Department of Linguistics faculty Stanford University School of Engineering faculty 1962 births Natural language processing researchers Computational linguistics researchers Linguists from the United States Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America {{US-linguist-stub