Martha (Stone) Palmer
Alma mater
Known forPropBank
VerbNet
AwardsACL Fellow (2014)
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] 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.


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