Martha StoneÌýPalmer

  • Research Professor
  • LINGUISTICS
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE
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Department of LinguisticsÌý
³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado at BoulderÌý
295 UCBÌý
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0295

Martha Palmer is anÌýArts and Sciences Professor of Distinction for Linguistics, and the formerÌýHelen & Hubert Croft Professor of Engineering in the Computer Science Department. She has retired from her faculty position and is nowÌýa part-time Research Professor. ÌýShe is NO LONGERÌýTAKING NEW STUDENTS.ÌýShe is also an Institute of Cognitive Science Faculty Fellow, has been a co-Director of CLEAR and the Foounding Director of CLASIC. ÌýShe is an (ACL) and an (AAAI) .ÌýShe received a BFA 2010 Research Award, was the Director of the 2011 Linguistics Institute in at CU-Boulder and was named an Outstanding Graduate Advisor in 2014. After earning a BA in Philosophy and a Masters in Computer Science and Psychology at the , she was the first woman to obtain a Ph.D. from the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the in 1985. ÌýShe was an Associate Professor in Computer and Information Sciences at the for 6 years before coming to Colorado in 2005. Her research is focused on capturing elements of the meanings of words that can comprise automatic representations of complex sentences and documents, both manually and automatically. In artificial intelligence, supervised machine learning techniques rely on vast amounts of annotated training data, so she and her students have provided data with semantic annotation for English, Chinese, Arabic, Korean, Hindi, and Urdu, funded by DARPA and NSF. A more recent focus is the application of these methods to biomedical journal articles and clinical notes, funded by NIH, as well as the geosciences and classroom conversations, funded by NSF. She co-edits and has been a co-editor of and on the and Editorial Boards. She has well over 300Ìýreviewed publications.

On JulyÌý12, 2023, the Association for Computational Linguistics bestowed their Lifetime Achievement Award on Martha, for which she is extremely grateful. ÌýÌýand .