Emily M. Bender

Emily M. Bender
Born1973 (age 50–51)
Known forResearch 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
SpouseVijay Menon[4]
MotherSheila Bender[3]
Academic background
Alma materUC Berkeley and Stanford University[1][2]
ThesisSyntactic variation and linguistic competence: The case of AAVE copula absence (2000[1][2])
Doctoral advisorTom Wasow
Penelope Eckert[2]
Academic work
DisciplineLinguistics
Sub-disciplineSyntax, computational linguistics
InstitutionsUniversity 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]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference LanguageLog2006 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b c "Emily M. Bender". OpenReview. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
  3. ^ "In Conversation with Emily Menon Bender - Sheila Bender's Writing It Real". 2023-09-07. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
  4. ^ Weil, Elizabeth (2023-03-01). "You Are Not a Parrot". Intelligencer. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
  5. ^ "Emily M. Bender | Department of Linguistics | University of Washington". linguistics.washington.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
  6. ^ "Emily M. Bender". University of Washington faculty website. Retrieved February 4, 2023.
  7. ^ Bender, Emily M. (2022-06-14). "Human-like programs abuse our empathy – even Google engineers aren't immune". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-02-04.