Bonnie Webber
Bonnie Lynn Webber FRSE (born August 30, 1946)[1] is a computational linguist. She is an honorary professor of intelligent systems in the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation at the University of Edinburgh.[2]
Education and career
Webber has a Ph.D. from Harvard University, advised by Bill Woods,[3] and was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania for 20 years before moving to Edinburgh.[4] She has many academic descendants through her student at Pennsylvania, Martha E. Pollack.[3] After retiring from the University of Edinburgh,[4] she was listed by the university as an honorary professor.[2]
Books
Webber's 1978 doctoral dissertation, A Formal Approach to Discourse Anaphora, used formal logic to model the meanings of natural-language statements; it was published by Garland Publishers in 1979 in their Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics Series.[5] With Norman Badler and Cary Phillips, Webber is a co-author of the book Simulating Humans: Computer Graphics Animation and Control (Oxford University Press, 1993).[6]
With Aravind Joshi and Ivan Sag she is a co-editor of Elements of Discourse Understanding (Cambridge University Press, 1981),[7] with Nils Nilsson she is co-editor of Readings in Artificial Intelligence (Morgan Kaufmann, 1981), and with Barbara Grosz and Karen Spärck Jones she is co-editor of Readings in Natural Language Processing (1986).[8]
Recognition
Webber became a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 1991,[4][9] and was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2004.[10] She is a past president of the Association for Computational Linguistics,[4] and became a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2012, "for significant contributions to discourse structure and discourse-based interpretation".[11]
References
- ^ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, accessed 2020-03-12
- ^ a b Honorary Staff, University of Edinburgh School of Informatics, retrieved 2020-03-12
- ^ a b Bonnie Webber at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b c d Speaker biography: Bonnie Webber, Macquarie University, August 2018, retrieved 2020-03-12
- ^ Hirst, Graeme (April 1981), "Discourse-oriented anaphora resolution in natural language understanding: a review" (PDF), Computational Linguistics, 7 (2): 85–98
- ^ Review of Simulating Humans:
ACM SIGART Bulletin, 5 (3): 45–46, July 1994, doi:10.1145/181911.1064917
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - ^ Review of Elements of Discourse Understanding:
MacWhinney, Brian (March 1983), Language, 59 (1): 214–215, doi:10.2307/414072, JSTOR 414072
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - ^ Review of Readings in Natural Language Processing:
White, John S. (October 1987), Computers and Translation, 2 (4): 285–286, JSTOR 25469930
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - ^ Lee, John A. N. (1995), International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers, Taylor & Francis, p. 798, ISBN 9781884964473
- ^ Professor Bonnie Lynn Webber FRSE, Royal Society of Edinburgh, retrieved 2020-03-12
- ^ "ACL Fellows", ACL Wiki, Association for Computational Linguistics, retrieved 2020-03-12
External links
- Home page
- Bonnie Webber publications indexed by Google Scholar
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- Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
- Fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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