Martha Palmer

University of Colorado Boulder — Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Distinction for Linguistics



Martha Palmer is an Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction for Linguistics, and the former Helen & Hubert Croft Professor of Engineering in the Computer Science Department. She has retired from her faculty position and is now a part-time Research Professor.  She is also an Institute of Cognitive Science Faculty Fellow, a co-Director of CLEAR, an Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) Fellow and an Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fellow. She received a BFA 2010 Research Award, was the Director of the 2011 Linguistics Institute at CU-Boulder and was named an Outstanding Graduate Advisor in 2014. She and her students have provided data and trained classifiers for semantic annotation of English, Chinese, Arabic, Korean, Hindi, and Urdu, funded by DARPA and NSF. A more recent focus is the application of these methods to biomedical journal articles and clinical notes, funded by NIH, and the geosciences, funded by NSF. She is a co-PI of the NSF Institute for Student-AI Teaming. She co-edits LiLT, Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, and has been a co-editor of Natural Language Engineering and on the Computational Linguistics and Transaction of ACL Editorial Boards. She has well over 300 reviewed publications.

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