Diana Maynard

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Diana Maynard is a British computational linguist who works as a senior research fellow in the Natural Language Processing Group of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield.

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Education and career

Maynard is originally from Chertsey. She was educated in Manchester, earning a bachelor's degree in Computational Linguistics & French in 1995 at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, a master's degree in Cognitive Science from the University of Manchester in 1996, and a Ph.D. from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2000, [1] completed despite becoming nearly blind from complications of Type 1 diabetes during her graduate studies. [2]

Research

Maynard has been a researcher associated with the General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) project at Sheffield since 2000. [1]

Books

Maynard is a coauthor of the books Text Processing with GATE (University of Sheffield, 2011) and Natural Language Processing for the Semantic Web (Morgan & Claypool, 2017).

References

  1. 1 2 Brief biography , retrieved 2020-08-11
  2. "Diana Maynard", DiAthlete, archived from the original on 2020-04-20, retrieved 2020-08-11