Madeleine Bates

Madeleine Ashcraft Bates (born c. 1948) is a researcher in natural language processing who worked at BBN Technologies in Cambridge, Massachusetts from the early 1970s to the late 1990s. ^[1] She was president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 1985, ^[2] and co-editor of the book Challenges in Natural Language Processing (1993). ^[3]

Education and career

Bates was a student at Allegheny College before transferring to Carnegie Mellon University, ^[4] where she majored in mathematics, graduating in 1968. She completed her Ph.D. in applied mathematics at Harvard University in 1975, ^[5] working there with Bill Woods on augmented transition networks. ^[6]

While a student at Harvard, she began working part-time at BBN in 1971. After completing her Ph.D., she was an assistant professor at Boston University for three years before becoming a full-time researcher at BBN. ^[5]

Personal life

Bates married chemist Alan Hunt Bates in summer 1968; ^[4] he later became a professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her mother, Madeleine DeMuth Ashcraft (died 1990), was a long-term sufferer of Huntington's disease, ^[7] and Bates has been an activist for the treatment of Huntington's disease, serving as president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the committee to Combat Huntington's Disease. ^[8]

Selected publications

• Bates, M. (February 1975), "The use of syntax in a speech understanding system", IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 23 (1): 112–117, doi:10.1109/tassp.1975.1162640
• Bates, Madeleine (1978), "The theory and practice of augmented transition network grammars", in Bolc, Leonard (ed.), Natural Language Communication with Computers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 63, Springer-Verlag, pp. 191–254, doi:10.1007/bfb0031372, ISBN   3-540-08911-X
• Bates, Madeleine (1982), "AI Research at Bolt, Beranek & Newman, Inc", AI Magazine, 3 (2): 44–46, archived from the original on 2020-10-30, retrieved 2021-04-27
• Bates, Madeleine; Weischedel, Ralph M., eds. (1993), Challenges in Natural Language Processing, Studies in Natural Language Processing, Cambridge University Press
• Hirschman, L.; Tzoukermann, E.; Bates, M.; Dahl, D.; Fisher, W.; Garofolo, J.; Pallett, D.; Hunicke-Smith, K.; Price, P.; Rudnicky, A. (1993), "Multi-site data collection and evaluation in spoken language understanding", Proceedings of the Workshop on Human Language Technology - HLT '93 (PDF), Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 19, doi: 10.3115/1075671.1075676 , ISBN   1-55860-324-7
• Dahl, Deborah A.; Bates, Madeleine; Brown, Michael; Fisher, William; Hunicke-Smith, Kate; Pallett, David; Pao, Christine; Rudnicky, Alexander; Shriberg, Elizabeth (1994), "Expanding the scope of the ATIS task", Proceedings of the workshop on Human Language Technology - HLT '94 (PDF), Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 43, doi: 10.3115/1075812.1075823 , ISBN   1-55860-357-3
• Bates, M. (October 1995), "Models of natural language understanding", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 92 (22): 9977–9982, Bibcode:1995PNAS...92.9977B, doi: 10.1073/pnas.92.22.9977 , PMC   40721 , PMID   7479812
• Bates, Madeleine; Bobrow, Robert J. (1997), "Using BBN VALAD: Speech at the Logistics Anchor Desk", 5th Applied Natural Language Processing Conference, ANLP 1997, Marriott Hotel, Washington, USA, March 31 - April 3, 1997, Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 35, doi: 10.3115/974281.974303

References

1. "Author biographies", Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines, National Academies Press, 1994, p. 515
2. Past officers, Association for Computational Linguistics, retrieved 2021-04-27
3. Reviews of Challenges in Natural Language Processing:
   • Covington, Michael A. (June 1995), Language, 71 (2): 402–403, doi:10.2307/416182, JSTOR   416182
   • Doran, Christine; Srinivas, B. (March 1996), Natural Language Engineering, 2 (1): 81–93, doi:10.1017/s1351324996251204, S2CID   27334424
   • Hovy, Eduard (March 1995), "Review", Computational Linguistics, 21 (1): 120–123
4. "Plans Made For Wedding Next Summer", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, p. 23, 1 December 1967 – via Newspapers.com
5. "Contributors", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC-12 (2): 237, March–April 1982, doi:10.1109/TSMC.1982.4308807
6. Woods, W. A. (December 1969), Augmented Transition Networks for Natural Language Analysis: Report No. CS-1 to the National Science Foundation, p. iv, with the help of Mrs. Madeleine Bates, a graduate student who did much of the grammar development for the parser
7. "Ashcraft, Madeleine Demuth", Death notices, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, p. 4, 28 June 1990 – via Newspapers.com
8. "Testimony of Madeleine Bates, president, CCHD, Boston, Massachusetts", Report of the Commission for the Control of Huntington's Diseases and Its Consequences, Volume IV, Part 2 – Public Testimony, Ann Arbor, Atlanta, Boston, National Institutes of Health, October 1977, pp. 2–736