Dan Jurafsky


Daniel Jurafsky is a Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science at Stanford University and author. With Daniel Gildea, he is known for developing the first automatic system for semantic role labeling.
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.
He is the author of The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu and a textbook on speech and language processing. Jurafsky was given a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002.

Academic life

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

Selected works