Daniel Jurafsky is a professor of

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

and

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Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

, 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). For the former, Jurafsky was named a finalist for the James Beard Award. Jurafsky was given a

MacArthur Fellowship The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the MacArthur Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically between 20 and ...

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 university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

; 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 a subfield of computer science and especially artificial intelligence. It is primarily concerned with providing computers with the ability to process data encoded in natural language and is thus closely related ...

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

, 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. It is also ...

'' (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 Natural language processing (NLP) is a subfield of computer science and especially artificial intelligence. It is primarily concerned with providing computers with the ability to process data encoded in natural language and is thus closely related ...

Personal life

Jurafsky is Jewish. He is married. They reside 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. * 2023
''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.

* 2019. LSA Fellow * 2022. Atkinson Prizes in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences

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