Dan Jurafsky
Professor of Linguistics
Professor of Computer Science
Dan Jurafsky is Professor and Chair of Linguistics and Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University.
He is the recipient of a 2002 MacArthur Fellowship, co-author with Jim Martin of the widely-used textbook "Speech and Language Processing," and co-created with Chris Manning one of the first massively open online courses, Stanford's course in Natural Language Processing. His trade book "The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu" was a finalist for the 2015 James Beard Award.
Dan received a B.A in Linguistics in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992 from the University of California at Berkeley, was a postdoc 1992-1995 at the International Computer Science Institute and was on the faculty of the University of Colorado, Boulder until moving to Stanford in 2003.
His research ranges widely across computational linguistics; special interests include natural language understanding, human-human conversation, the relationship between human and machine processing, and the application of natural language processing to the social and behavioral sciences. He also works on the linguistics of food and the linguistics of Chinese.