Published: Dec. 7, 2015

Martha Palmer, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science, working with collaborators both at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ and around the country, have secured over $2 million in funding for a wide range of multi-year interdisiciplinaryÌýprojects in automated languge understanding, with critical applications to national security, medical diagnosis and disasterÌýresponse.Ìý

  • ProfessorsÌýPalmer, Jordan Boyd-Graber (CSCI)Ìýand Laura Michaelis (LING)Ìýhave received a three-year award for $750,000 from theÌýDefense Threat Reduction Agency forÌýeTASC, Empirical Evidence for a Theoretical Approach to Semantic Components.Ìý
  • Professors Palmer, Jim Martin (CSCI), Wayne Ward (Boulder Language Technologies)Ìýand Jordan Boyd-Graber have received a three-year subaward for $531,328 from the National Institutes of Health for the renewal ofÌýTHYME (Temporal History of Your Medical Events) with primary investigator (PI) Dr.ÌýGuergana Savova, at Boston Children’s Hospital.
  • Prof. Palmer has received a three-year, $280,000Ìýsubaward from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) forÌýLorelei (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) with PI Stephanie Strassel, of the Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Prof. Palmer has received a three-yearÌýsubaward from DARPA,ÌýCommunicating with Computers, for $450,000, with PI Dan Roth, of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Prof. Palmer is an internationally recognized leader in data-driven approaches to natural-language processing. She is considered the world's leading expert in annotation science, and supports a large number of undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral researchers in her labs. She is co-director of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥'sÌý (°ä³¢·¡´¡¸é).Ìý

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