Research
Dr. Palmer's current research is aimed at building domain-independent and language independent techniques for semantic interpretation based on linguistically annotated data used for training supervised systems, such as Proposition Banks. She has been the PI on projects to build Chinese, Korean and Hindi TreeBanks and English, Chinese, Korean, Arabic and Hindi Proposition Banks. She has led projects for semantic annotation of biomedical and geoscience texts, clinical notes, and classroom conversations. She has been a member of the Advisory Committee for the DARPA TIDES program and the chair of the Cross-Program Ontology Working Group for the DARPA AIDA, KAIROS and MAA programs. She was also a Chair of SIGLEX, the founding Chair of SIGHAN, and is a past President of the Association for Computational Linguistics.