Diana Maynard


Diana Maynard is a British computational linguist who works as a senior research fellow in the Natural Language Processing Group of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield.
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Education and career

Maynard is originally from Chertsey. She was educated in Manchester, earning a bachelor's degree in Computational Linguistics & French in 1995 at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, a master's degree in Cognitive Science from the University of Manchester in 1996, and a Ph.D. from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2000, completed despite becoming nearly blind from complications of Type 1 diabetes during her graduate studies.

Research

Maynard has been a researcher associated with the General Architecture for Text Engineering project at Sheffield since 2000.

Books

Maynard is a coauthor of the books Text Processing with GATE and Natural Language Processing for the Semantic Web.