Dan Jurafsky

Dan Jurafsky is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics, and by courtesy in the Department of Computer Science, at Stanford University. From 1996-2003 he was on the faculty of the University of Colorado, Boulder, in the Linguistics and Computer Science departments and the Institute of Cognitive Science. Dan received a B.A in Linguistics in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992, both from the University of California at Berkeley, and was a postdoc 1992-1995 at the International Computer Science Institute. He is the recipient of a 2002 MacArthur Fellowship, and is the co-author with Jim Martin of the widely-used textbook "Speech and Language Processing". Recent research interests include the induction of meaning, machine translation and other issues in Chinese NLP, the role of probability in human word production, the application of natural language processing to social science topics including social psychology and the sociology of science, and the linguistics of food. Dan was born in Yonkers, New York, and grew up in Los Altos, California.

Here's a picture of Dan with Peter Sells, playing in Dead Tongues

And here's a picture from the COLING-02 conference in Taipei, Taiwan.