Ralph Grishman
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Ralph Grishman | |
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| Born | January 6, 1948 |
| Alma mater | Columbia University (PhD in physics) |
| Known for | Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | computational linguistics, computer science |
| Institutions | New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
| Doctoral students | Heng Ji |
| Website | Proteus Project website |
Ralph Grishman is a computer scientist who works on natural language processing and information extraction. He is a professor at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, where he leads the Proteus Project, with projects funded by various US government agencies.
Career
Ralph Grishman obtained his Ph. D. in Physics at Columbia University in 1973, with a thesis titled: "Numerical Studies of Self-Avoiding Walks." Prior to that he obtained his A.B. (Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in Physics from Columbia College, in 1968. Upon receiving his Ph. D. in 1973, he joined the Department of Computer Science at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (as assistant professor). He became full professor at the Department of Computer Science in 1983; he has also held the post of Chairman of the Department (1986-1988).
Scientific developments in natural language processing in the USA were driven in the 1980's and 1990's in part by strong interest from various US defence agencies. In 1982-83, Grishman was on assignment at the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence of the United States Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, D.C.), which conducts basic and applied research in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, autonomy, and human-centered computing.[1]
Working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, he served as Member of the ARPA Speech & Natural Language Standing Committee (1992-1994), and as Chair in the DARPA TIPSTER Program Phase II Architecture Working Group (1994-1998). His service on other Government Committees includes work with the National Institutes of Standards and Technology, as Member of the Organizing Committee for the Text Analysis Conference, (2010-2015) His service to the international Association for Computational Linguistics includes holding the post of Vice President (1990), President (1991), and acting as Program Chair and Member of Executive Committees on various meetings of the ACL, and its regional chapters.
Research
Ralph Grishman works in the area of natural language processing. The many sub-areas in which he has published include information extraction, machine learning, machine translation, work on syntactic parsing and syntactic treebanks for various natural languages. He has published well over 300 peer-reviewed research papers.[2] His work is published in the proceedings of computer science conferences, including the meetings of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Grishman is a leading researcher in information extraction, being one of the original contributors to the MUC competitions, followed by ACE, and other shared tasks in information extraction.
His published monographs include a seminal textbook on computational linguistics.[3] Grishman's earlier work at the Courant Institute includes work on the Linguistic String Project,[4] lead by Naomi Sager.
References
- ↑ "The Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (NCARAI)". www.nrl.navy.mil. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- ↑ "Ralph Grishman - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
- ↑ "Ralph Grishman - Computational Linguistics: an Introduction" (PDF). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1986). Retrieved 2023-09-11.
- ↑ "Linguistic String Project". Retrieved 2023-09-11.
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