Eric Nyberg is a professor in the Language Technologies Institute of the School of Computer Science at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

. He is the director for the Master of Computational Data Science (formerly known as the M.S. in Very Large Information Systems). Nyberg has made significant research contributions to the fields of automatic text translation,

information retrieval Information retrieval (IR) in computing and information science is the process of obtaining information system resources that are relevant to an information need from a collection of those resources. Searches can be based on full-text or other co ...

, and automatic

question answering Question answering (QA) is a computer science discipline within the fields of information retrieval and natural language processing (NLP), which is concerned with building systems that automatically answer questions posed by humans in a natural l ...

. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University (1992), and his B.A. from

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

(1983). He has pioneered the Open Advancement of Question Answering, an

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

and methodology for accelerating collaborative research in automatic question answering. In 2011, Nyberg received the Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence for his scientific contributions to the field of question answering and his work on the

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project. He received the BU Computer Science Distinguished Alumna/Alumnus Award on September 27, 2013.

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