Janyce Wiebe

Janyce Marbury Wiebe (1959–2018) was an American computer science specializing in natural language processing and known for her work on subjectivity, sentiment analysis, opinion mining, discourse processing, and word-sense disambiguation.[1][2][3]

Life

Wiebe was born in 1959,[2] in Albany, New York. She majored in English at the Binghamton University, graduating in 1981,[4] and completed a Ph.D. in computer science in 1990, at the University at Buffalo. Her dissertation, Recognizing Subjective Sentences: A Computational Investigation of Narrative Text, was supervised by philosopher William J. Rapaport.[5]

After postdoctoral research at the University of Toronto, she became an assistant professor at New Mexico State University in 1992. In 2000, she moved to the University of Pittsburgh,[3] where she became a professor of computer science and director of the Intelligent Systems Program.[2] She died of leukemia on December 10, 2018.[4]

Recognition

Wiebe was named a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2015.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b ACL Executive Committee (20 December 2018), Remembering Janyce M. Wiebe, ACL Fellow, Association for Computational Linguistics, retrieved 2023-08-23
  2. ^ a b c Professor Janyce Wiebe, 1959 – 2018, University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information, archived from the original on 2019-02-07
  3. ^ a b Mihalcea, Rada (2019), "In Memory of Jan Wiebe", NAACL-HLT 2019, retrieved 2023-08-23
  4. ^ a b Crompton, Janice (23 December 2018), "Obituary: Janyce Wiebe / Pioneer in AI field; award-winning researcher, Pitt professor of computer science", Post-Gazette, retrieved 2023-08-23
  5. ^ Janyce Wiebe at the Mathematics Genealogy Project