Biography:Martha Palmer
Martha (Stone) Palmer | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | PropBank VerbNet |
| Awards | ACL Fellow (2014) AAAI Fellow (2020) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science Natural Language Processing Computational Linguistics |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania University of Colorado Boulder |
| Thesis | Driving semantics for a limited domain (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alan Bundy |
| Website | www |
Martha (Stone) Palmer is an American computer scientist. She is best known for her work on verb semantics,[1] and for the creation of ontological resources such as PropBank[2] and VerbNet.[3]
Education
Palmer received a Master of Arts in Computer Science from University of Texas at Austin in 1976, advised by Robert Simmons.[4]
She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1985. Her thesis was titled "Driving semantics for a limited domain", and was advised by Alan Bundy.[5]
Career
Palmer is currently a professor of computer science and linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder.[6][7] She was previously on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania.[8]
In 2026, she was appointed to the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI.[9][10]
Awards and honors
Palmer served as president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2005[11] and was named an ACL Fellow in 2014 "for significant contributions to computational semantics and the development of semantic corpora".[12]
In 2017, she was awarded the Helen & Hubert Croft (endowed) Professorship by the University of Colorado.[13] In the same year, the university named her a "Professor of Distinction", a title reserved for professors who have received international recognition for their research.[14] She was elected an AAAI Fellow in 2020 "for significant contributions to natural language processing and knowledge representation, including widely-used corpora of annotated structures in several languages".[15] In 2023, she was awarded the ACL Lifetime achievement award, the highest distinction by the Association for Computational Linguistics, for her lifetime work on verb semantics.[16]
References
- ↑ Wu, Zhibiao; Palmer, Martha (June 1994). "Verbs semantics and lexical selection". Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics. 32. pp. 133–138. doi:10.3115/981732.981751.
- ↑ Palmer, Martha; Gildea, Daniel; Kingsbury, Paul (March 2005). "The Proposition Bank: An Annotated Corpus of Semantic Roles". Computational Linguistics 31 (1): 71–106. doi:10.1162/0891201053630264.
- ↑ Kipper, Karin; Korhonen, Anna; Ryant, Neville; Palmer, Martha (12 December 2007). "A large-scale classification of English verbs". Language Resources and Evaluation 42 (1): 21–40. doi:10.1007/s10579-007-9048-2.
- ↑ "History - The UT Austin Computational Linguistics Lab". http://www.utcompling.com/program/history. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ↑ Palmer, Martha Stone (1985). Driving semantics for a limited domain. University of Edinburgh.
- ↑ "Faculty". University of Colorado Boulder. 5 August 2014. https://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ↑ "Faculty". University of Colorado Boulder. 24 August 2016. https://www.colorado.edu/cs/faculty. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ↑ "Penn Natural Language Processing". http://nlp.cis.upenn.edu/people.php. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ↑ "Introducing the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI | United Nations Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies posted on the topic | LinkedIn" (in en). https://www.linkedin.com/posts/unodet_what-is-the-ai-scientific-panel-activity-7381074527331598336-vd-k.
- ↑ "Panel Members" (in en). https://www.un.org/independent-international-scientific-panel-ai/en/panel-members.
- ↑ "The ACL Archives: ACL Officers". Association for Computational Linguistics. https://www.aclweb.org/archive/officers_new.html#2005. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
- ↑ "Six 2014 ACL Fellows Named". Association for Computational Linguistics. 18 December 2014. https://www.aclweb.org/portal/node/2501. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
- ↑ "Martha Palmer Awarded Professorship". University of Colorado. 8 August 2017. https://www.colorado.edu/ics/2017/08/08/martha-palmer-awarded-professorship. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ↑ "Newly minted professors of distinction to be celebrated". Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine (University of Colorado). 1 September 2017. https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2017/09/01/newly-minted-professors-distinction-be-celebrated.
- ↑ "Elected AAAI Fellows" (in en-US). https://aaai.org/about-aaai/aaai-awards/the-aaai-fellows-program/elected-aaai-fellows/.
- ↑ "Martha Palmer Receives the 2023 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award | ACL Member Portal". https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/martha-palmer-receives-2023-acl-lifetime-achievement-award.
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