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]
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 |
Education
editPalmer 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
editPalmer 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]
Awards and honors
editPalmer served as president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2005[9] and was named an ACL Fellow in 2014 "for significant contributions to computational semantics and the development of semantic corpora".[10]
In 2017, she was awarded the Helen & Hubert Croft Professorship by the University of Colorado.[11] 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.[12] 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".[13] 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.
References
edit- ^ Wu, Zhibiao; Palmer, Martha (June 1994). "Verbs semantics and lexical selection". Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics. Vol. 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. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.136.8985. doi:10.1162/0891201053630264. S2CID 2486369.
- ^ 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. S2CID 8071367.
- ^ "History - The UT Austin Computational Linguistics Lab". www.utcompling.com. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ Palmer, Martha Stone (1985). Driving semantics for a limited domain. University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/26831.
- ^ "Faculty". Department of Linguistics. University of Colorado Boulder. 5 August 2014. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ "Faculty". Computer Science. University of Colorado Boulder. 24 August 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ "Penn Natural Language Processing". nlp.cis.upenn.edu. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ "The ACL Archives: ACL Officers". www.aclweb.org. Association for Computational Linguistics. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
- ^ "Six 2014 ACL Fellows Named". www.aclweb.org. Association for Computational Linguistics. 18 December 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
- ^ "Martha Palmer Awarded Professorship". Institute of Cognitive Science. University of Colorado. 8 August 2017. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ "Newly minted professors of distinction to be celebrated". Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine. University of Colorado. 1 September 2017.
- ^ "Elected AAAI Fellows". AAAI. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
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