Dan Jurafsky


Daniel Jurafsky is a professor of linguistics and computer science at Stanford University, and also an author. With Daniel Gildea, he is known for developing the first automatic system for semantic role labeling. He is the author of The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu and a textbook on speech and language processing. For the former, Jurafsky was named a finalist for the James Beard Award. Jurafsky was given a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002.

Education

Jurafsky received his B.A in linguistics and Ph.D. in computer science, both at University of [California, Berkeley]; and then a postdoc at International [Computer Science Institute], Berkeley.

Academic life

He is the author of The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu. With James H. Martin, he wrote the textbook Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition.
The first automatic system for semantic role labeling was developed by Daniel Gildea and Daniel Jurafsky to automate the FrameNet annotation process in 2002; SRL has since become one of the standard tasks in natural language processing.

Personal life

Jurafsky is Jewish. He is married. They reside in San Francisco, California.

Selected works

  • 2009. , 2nd Edition. Prentice-Hall.
  • 2014. The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu. W. W. Norton & Company.
  • 2026. , 3rd Edition draft.

    Honors and awards

  • 1998. NSF Career Award
  • 2002. MacArthur Fellowship
  • 2019. LSA Fellow
  • 2022. Atkinson Prizes in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences