Bonnie Dorr

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Bonnie Dorr
Alma mater Boston University
MIT
Scientific career
Institutions University of Florida, Gainesville
Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
University of Maryland, College Park

Bonnie Jean Dorr is an American computer scientist specializing in natural language processing, machine translation, automatic summarization, social computing, and explainable artificial intelligence. [1] She is a professor and director of the Natural Language Processing Research Laboratory [2] in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering [3] at the University of Florida. [4] Gainesville, Florida She is professor emerita of computer science and linguistics and former dean at the University of Maryland, College Park, [5] [6] former associate director at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, [7] [8] [9] , and former president of the Association for Computational Linguistics. [5] [6]

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Education

Dorr is a graduate of Boston University, and earned both a Master's (1986) and a Ph.D. (1990) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [5] [6] Her dissertation, Lexical Conceptual Structure and Machine Translation, was supervised by Robert C. Berwick. [10]

Academic career

Dorr joined the University of Maryland faculty in 1992. At Maryland, she became the founding co-director of the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Laboratory, [11] and associate dean of the university's College of Computer, Math, and Natural Sciences (formerly College of Computer, Math, and Physical Sciences). [12] She has also worked as a program director at DARPA beginning in 2011 while on leave from Maryland. [5] [7]

She joined the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in 2014. [8] [9] In January 2022, she joined the University of Florida [3] as a professor, [1] where she founded and now serves as director of the Natural Language Processing Research Laboratory. [2] [13]

Book

Dorr is the author of Machine Translation: A View from the Lexicon (MIT Press, 1993), a revision of her doctoral dissertation. It describes an approach to interlingual machine translation in which, rather than directly translating text from one language to another, it goes through an intermediate form represented using conceptual semantics. The translations between the syntax of each natural language handled by the system and this form are made using government and binding theory, in contrast to the more typical approach from that time which performed this sort of translation using phrase structure grammars and the unification of feature structures. Her system was embodied in the UNITRAN system, and translated between English, Spanish, and German. However, her work was criticized for its lack of completeness (inability to handle certain common grammatical structures in these languages). [14]

Subsequently to Dorr's work, rule-based machine translation systems such as hers have largely been supplanted by statistical machine translation and neural machine translation, and some of Dorr's own later work instead focuses on data-driven approaches to machine translation [15] and prioritization of explainability in the face of the recent push for large language models (e.g., ChatGPT). [16]

Recognition

Dorr was president of the Association for Computational Linguistics for 2008. [5] She has been a Sloan Research Fellow and National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellow. [7] She was elected as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2013 for "significant contributions to natural language understanding and representation, and development of the widely recognized methods for interlingual machine translation". [17] In 2016 she was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics [7] and in 2021 she was elected Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. [18]

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References

  1. 1 2 Bonnie J. Dorr, Ph.D., University of Florida Computer & Information Science & Engineering, 23 September 2021, retrieved 2023-05-20
  2. 1 2 The Natural Language Processing (NLP) Research Laboratory, University of Florida Computer & Information Science & Engineering, retrieved 2023-05-20
  3. 1 2 New Hire: Welcoming Bonnie Dorr to CISE, University of Florida Computer & Information Science & Engineering, August 15, 2022, retrieved 2023-05-20
  4. ↑ Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida Computer & Information Science & Engineering, retrieved 2023-05-20
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Bonnie Dorr, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, retrieved 2023-05-20
  6. 1 2 3 Bonnie Dorr, University of Maryland Department of Computer Science, retrieved 2023-05-20
  7. 1 2 3 4 Emerita Professor Bonnie Dorr named ACL Fellow for 2016, University of Maryland Department of Computer Science, November 29, 2016, retrieved 2019-10-27
  8. 1 2 Dr. Bonnie Dorr joins IHMC as an associate director, senior scientist, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, March 2014, retrieved 2019-10-27
  9. 1 2 Gibson, Jim (December 28, 2017), "The Faces Of IHMC", Ocala Style
  10. ↑ Bonnie Dorr at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  11. ↑ Computational Linguistics and Information Processing at Maryland, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, retrieved 2023-05-20
  12. ↑ College of Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences Dean's Office, University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, retrieved 2023-05-20
  13. ↑ Bonnie J. Dorr Professor, Director NLP Research Laboratory, University of Florida Computer & Information Science & Engineering, retrieved 2023-05-20
  14. ↑ Reviews of Machine Translation: A View from the Lexicon:
    • Obermeier, Klaus K., "Review", ACM Computing Reviews
    • Radzinski, Daniel (December 1994), "Review" (PDF), Computational Linguistics, 20 (4): 670–676
    • Arnold, v (1996), "Parameterizing lexical conceptual structure for interlingual machine translation", Machine Translation, 11 (4): 217–241, doi:10.1007/BF00387396, JSTOR   40008162, S2CID   21310560
  15. ↑ See, e.g., Madnani, Nitin; Dorr, Bonnie J. (September 2010), "Generating phrasal and sentential paraphrases: A survey of data-driven methods", Computational Linguistics, 36 (3): 341–387, doi: 10.1162/coli_a_00002
  16. ↑ Explainability and Large Language Models:
  17. ↑ AAAI Honors DARPA PM Bonnie Dorr for "Significant Contributions", DARPA, September 19, 2013, retrieved 2019-10-27
  18. ↑ ACM Fellow Award:
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