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Martha Palmer is an Associate Professor in the Linguistics Department and
the Computer Science Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder, as
well as a Faculty Fellow of Institute of Cognitive Science. She was formerly an
Associate Professor in Computer and Information Sciences at the University of
Pennsylvania.
She has been actively involved in research in Natural Language
Processing and Knowledge Representation for over twenty years, beginning with
her graduate work at the University of Edinburgh on the use of Lexical
Conceptual Structures as predicate argument structures for driving the semantic
interpretation process which formed the basis of the successful DARPA-funded
text processing system, Pundit, built at Unisys during the 80's. This system
integrated semantic and pragmatic processing in innovative ways that enabled
sophisticated reference resolution and temporal analysis, and led to insights
on the use of computational semantics that have continued to inform her
research. She helped instigate the multilingual sense tagging evaluation
exercises known as SENSEVAL, and supplied the data for the CoNLL shared task on
Semantic Role Labeling for 2004 and 2005.
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 and Korean TreeBanks and English, Chinese and Korean
Proposition Banks. She has been a member of the Advisory Committee for the
DARPA TIDES program, Chair of SIGLEX, Chair of SIGHAN, and is a past
President of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
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