Emily M. Bender | |
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Born | 1973 (age 50–51) |
Known for | Research on the risks of large language models and ethics of NLP; coining the term 'Stochastic parrot'; research on the use of Head-driven phrase structure grammar in computational linguistics |
Spouse | Vijay Menon[4] |
Mother | Sheila Bender[3] |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | UC Berkeley and Stanford University[1][2] |
Thesis | Syntactic variation and linguistic competence: The case of AAVE copula absence (2000[1][2]) |
Doctoral advisor | Tom Wasow Penelope Eckert[2] |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguistics |
Sub-discipline | Syntax, computational linguistics |
Institutions | University of Washington |
Emily Menon Bender (born 1973) is an American linguist who is a professor at the University of Washington. She specializes in computational linguistics and natural language processing. She is also the director of the University of Washington's Computational Linguistics Laboratory.[5][6] She has published several papers on the risks of large language models and on ethics in natural language processing.[7]
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