Julia Hirschberg | |
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| Born | |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania University of Michigan |
| Known for | Natural Language Processing |
| Awards | American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018) IEEE Fellow (2017) National Academy of Engineering (2017) ACM Fellow (2015) ACL Fellow (2011) AAAI Fellow (1994) International Speech Communication Association Fellow (2011) Honorary Doctorate (Hedersdoktor) KTH (2007) Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Teaching award (2009) IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award (2011) ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement (2011) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | A Theory of Scalar Implicature (1985) |
| Website | www |
Julia Hirschberg is an American computer scientist noted for her research on computational linguistics and natural language processing.[1]
Hirschberg was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2017 for contributions to the use of prosody in text-to-speech and spoken dialogue systems, and to audio browsing and retrieval.
She is currently the Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University.