User:Martha S. Palmer

Martha Palmer is the Helen & Hubert Croft Professor of Engineering in the Computer Science Department, and an Arts & Sciences Professor of Distinction in the Linguistics Department, at the University of Colorado. She is also an Institute of Cognitive Science Faculty Fellow, a co-Director of CLEAR and an Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) Fellow. She won an Outstanding Graduate Advisor 2014 Award, a Boulder Faculty Assembly 2010 Research Award and was the Director of the 2011 Linguistics Institute in Boulder, CO. She was the first woman to obtain a Ph.D. is in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 1985. Her research is focused on capturing elements of the meanings of words that can comprise automatic representations of complex sentences and documents. Supervised machine learning techniques rely on vast amounts of annotated training data so she and her students are engaged in providing data with semantic annotation for English, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, and Urdu, funded by DARPA and NSF, both manually and automatically. This has led to the development of OntoNotes sense tags, the Proposition Bank, VerbNet, Abstract Meaning Representations, Richer Event Descriptions, and the Reference Event Ontology. A more recent focus is the application of these methods to biomedical journal articles and clinical notes, funded by NIH, and the geosciences, funded by NSF. She co-edits LiLT, Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, and has been a co-editor of the Journal of Natural Language Engineering and on the CLJ Editorial Board.  She is a past President of ACL, and past Chair of SIGLEX and of SIGHAN.