Wendy Lehnert

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Wendy Grace Lehnert is an American computer scientist specializing in natural language processing and known for her pioneering use of machine learning in natural language processing. [1] She is a professor emerita at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. [2]

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Education and career

Lehnert earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Portland State University in 1972, and a master's degree from Yeshiva University in 1974. [2] She became a student of Roger Schank at Yale University, completing her Ph.D. there in 1977 with a dissertation on The Process of Question Answering, [3] and was hired by Yale as an assistant professor. She moved to the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1982. [2] At Amherst, her doctoral students have included Claire Cardie and Ellen Riloff. [3] She retired in 2011. [1]

Books

Lehnert has written both scholarly and popular books on computing, including:

Recognition

In 1991, Lehnert was elected as an AAAI Fellow. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Wendy Lehnert retires, University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences, December 14, 2011, retrieved 2019-12-11
  2. 1 2 3 Wendy G. Lehnert, University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences, 20 February 2008, retrieved 2019-12-11
  3. 1 2 Wendy Lehnert at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Miller, Lance A. (1979), "Review of The Process of Question Answering" (PDF), Contemporary Psychology, 24 (10): 777–779, doi:10.1037/017603
  5. AAAI Fellows list , retrieved 2019-12-11