Biography:Bonnie Webber
Bonnie Webber | |
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| Born | Bonnie Lynn Webber August 30, 1946[1] |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (PhD) |
| Known for | Computational Linguistics |
| Awards | AAAI Fellow (1990) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh University of Pennsylvania BBN Technologies |
| Thesis | A Formal Approach to Discourse Anaphora (1978) |
| Doctoral advisor | William Aaron Woods[2] |
| Doctoral students | Martha E. Pollack[2] |
| Website | {{{1}}} |
Bonnie Lynn Nash-Webber FRSE (born August 30, 1946)[1] is a computational linguist.[3] She is an honorary professor of intelligent systems in the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) at the University of Edinburgh.[4]
Education and career
Webber completed her PhD at Harvard University in 1978, advised by Bill Woods,[2] while at the same time working with Woods at Bolt Beranek and Newman.[5]
Career and research
Webber was appointed a professor at the University of Pennsylvania for 20 years before moving to Edinburgh in 1998.[6][5] She has many academic descendants through her student at Pennsylvania, Martha E. Pollack.[2] After retiring from the University of Edinburgh in 2016,[6][5] she was listed by the university as an honorary professor.[4]
Publications
Webber's doctoral dissertation, A Formal Approach to Discourse Anaphora, used formal logic to model the meanings of natural-language statements; it was published by Garland Publishers in 1979 in their Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics Series.[7] With Norman Badler and Cary Phillips, Webber is a co-author of the book Simulating Humans: Computer Graphics Animation and Control (Oxford University Press, 1993).[8]
With Aravind Joshi and Ivan Sag she is a co-editor of Elements of Discourse Understanding,[9] with Nils Nilsson she is co-editor of Readings in Artificial Intelligence,[10] and with Barbara Grosz and Karen Spärck Jones she is co-editor of Readings in Natural Language Processing.[11]
Awards and honours
Webber was appointed a Founding Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 1990,[6][12] and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2004.[13] She served as president of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in 1980,[6][14] and became a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2012, "for significant contributions to discourse structure and discourse-based interpretation".[15] In 2020, she was awarded the Association for Computational Linguistics Lifetime Achievement Award.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bonnie Webber at Library of Congress Authorities
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Bonnie Webber at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Honorary Staff, University of Edinburgh School of Informatics, 24 April 2015, https://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/people/honorary, retrieved 2020-03-12
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Special minute: Professor Bonnie Webber, BSc, PhD, FRSE Emeritus, Professor of Intelligent Systems", Academic Senate Agenda (University of Edinburgh): pp. 14–15, 28 September 2016, https://www.ed.ac.uk/files/atoms/files/20160928agendaandpapers.pdf
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Speaker biography: Bonnie Webber, Macquarie University, August 2018, https://www.mq.edu.au/research/research-centres-groups-and-facilities/healthy-people/centres/centre-for-language-sciences-clas/news-and-events/prof-bonnie-webber-seminar, retrieved 2020-03-12
- ↑ Hirst, Graeme (1981), "Discourse-oriented anaphora resolution in natural language understanding: a review", Computational Linguistics 7 (2): 85–98, https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/J81-2001.pdf
- ↑ Marks, Joe (1994), "Review of Simulating Humans", ACM SIGART Bulletin 5 (3): 45–46, doi:10.1145/181911.1064917
- ↑ MacWhinney, Brian (1983), "Review of Elements of Discourse Understanding", Language (Cambridge University Press) 59 (1): 214–215, doi:10.2307/414072
- ↑ Morgan Kaufmann, 1981 [ISBN missing]
- ↑ White, John S. (1987), "Review of Readings in Natural Language Processing", Computers and Translation 2 (4): 285–286
- ↑ Lee, John A. N. (1995), International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers, Taylor & Francis, p. 798, ISBN 9781884964473, https://books.google.com/books?id=ocx4Jc12mkgC&pg=PA798
- ↑ Professor Bonnie Lynn Webber FRSE, Royal Society of Edinburgh, https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/bonnie-webber/, retrieved 2020-03-12
- ↑ "ACL Officers", ACL Wiki (Association for Computational Linguistics), https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Officers, retrieved 2020-03-12
- ↑ "ACL Fellows", ACL Wiki (Association for Computational Linguistics), https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/ACL_Fellows, retrieved 2020-03-12
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