Martha Palmer

Martha (Stone) Palmer
Alma mater
Known forPropBank
VerbNet
AwardsACL Fellow (2014)
AAAI Fellow (2020)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
Natural Language Processing
Computational Linguistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania
University of Colorado Boulder
ThesisDriving semantics for a limited domain (1985)
Doctoral advisorAlan Bundy
Websitewww.colorado.edu/faculty/palmer-martha/

Martha (Stone) Palmer is an American computer scientist. She is best known for her work on verb semantics,[1] and for the creation of ontological resources such as PropBank[2] and VerbNet.[3]

Education

Palmer received a Master of Arts in Computer Science from University of Texas at Austin in 1976, advised by Robert Simmons.[4]

She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1985. Her thesis was titled "Driving semantics for a limited domain", and was advised by Alan Bundy.[5]

Career

Palmer is currently a professor of computer science and linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder.[6][7] She was previously on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania.[8]

Awards and honors

Palmer served as president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2005[9] and was named an ACL Fellow in 2014 "for significant contributions to computational semantics and the development of semantic corpora".[10]

In 2017, she was awarded the Helen & Hubert Croft Professorship by the University of Colorado.[11] In the same year, the university named her a "Professor of Distinction", a title reserved for professors who have received international recognition for their research.[12] She was elected an AAAI Fellow in 2020 "for significant contributions to natural language processing and knowledge representation, including widely-used corpora of annotated structures in several languages".[13] In 2023, she was awarded the ACL Lifetime achievement award, the highest distinction by the Association for Computational Linguistics, for her lifetime work on verb semantics.

References

  1. ^ Wu, Zhibiao; Palmer, Martha (June 1994). "Verbs semantics and lexical selection". Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics. Vol. 32. pp. 133–138. doi:10.3115/981732.981751.
  2. ^ Palmer, Martha; Gildea, Daniel; Kingsbury, Paul (March 2005). "The Proposition Bank: An Annotated Corpus of Semantic Roles". Computational Linguistics. 31 (1): 71–106. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.136.8985. doi:10.1162/0891201053630264. S2CID 2486369.
  3. ^ Kipper, Karin; Korhonen, Anna; Ryant, Neville; Palmer, Martha (12 December 2007). "A large-scale classification of English verbs". Language Resources and Evaluation. 42 (1): 21–40. doi:10.1007/s10579-007-9048-2. S2CID 8071367.
  4. ^ "History - The UT Austin Computational Linguistics Lab". www.utcompling.com. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  5. ^ Palmer, Martha Stone (1985). Driving semantics for a limited domain. University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/26831.
  6. ^ "Faculty". Department of Linguistics. University of Colorado Boulder. 5 August 2014. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  7. ^ "Faculty". Computer Science. University of Colorado Boulder. 24 August 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  8. ^ "Penn Natural Language Processing". nlp.cis.upenn.edu. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  9. ^ "The ACL Archives: ACL Officers". www.aclweb.org. Association for Computational Linguistics. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  10. ^ "Six 2014 ACL Fellows Named". www.aclweb.org. Association for Computational Linguistics. 18 December 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  11. ^ "Martha Palmer Awarded Professorship". Institute of Cognitive Science. University of Colorado. 8 August 2017. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  12. ^ "Newly minted professors of distinction to be celebrated". Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine. University of Colorado. 1 September 2017.
  13. ^ "Elected AAAI Fellows". AAAI. Retrieved 2024-01-04.


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