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Emily M. Bender is an American linguist who works on multilingual grammar engineering and technology for endangered language documentation. She is the Howard and Frances Nostrand Endowed Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington. Her specialty lies in computational linguistics, which focuses on the techniques and computer science behind language speaking. With that she is also "an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering,... and director of Computational Linguistics Laboratory"[1] at the University as well. Bender has a wide range of languages that she is fascinated with, which includes Japanese, Chintang, Mandarin, Wambaya, ASL and of course English. [2]

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Emily M. Bender
Born	(1973-10-10) October 10, 1973 (age 48)
Academic background
Alma mater	Stanford University
Thesis	Syntactic variation and linguistic competence: The case of AAVE copula absence (2000)
Academic work
Discipline	Linguist
Sub-discipline	Syntax, computational linguistics
Institutions	University of Washington

Contributions

Bender has constructed the LinGO Grammar Matrix, an open-source starter kit for the development of broad-coverage precision HPSG grammars.[3][4] In 2013, she published Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing: 100 Essentials from Morphology and Syntax, and in 2019, she published Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing II: 100 Essentials from Semantics and Pragmatics with Alex Lascarides, which both explain basic linguistic principles in a way that makes them accessible to NLP practitioners.

In 2020, Bender co-authored a paper[5] with Google researcher Timnit Gebru and others that Google tried to block from publication, part of a sequence of events leading to Gebru departing from Google, the details of which are disputed. The paper concerned ethical issues in building natural language processing systems using machine learning from large text corpora.[6] Since then, she has invested efforts to popularize AI ethics and has taken a stand against hype over large language models.[7][8]

Education and career

Bender received her PhD from Stanford University in 2000 for her research on syntactic variation and linguistic competence in African American Vernacular English (AAVE). Bender's AB in linguistics is from UC Berkeley and also attended Tohoku University.[9] Before working at University of Washington, Bender held positions at Stanford University, UC Berkeley and worked in industry at YY Technologies.[10] She currently holds several positions at the University of Washington, where she has been faculty since 2003, including professor in the Department of Linguistics, adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, faculty director of the Master of Science in Computational Linguistics,[11] and director of the Computational Linguistics Laboratory.[12] Bender is the current holder of the Howard and Frances Nostrand Endowed Professorship.[13][14]

Bender was elected VP-elect of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2021.[15] Bender will serve as VP-elect in 2022, moving to Vice-President in 2023, President in 2024, and Past President in 2025.

Key publications

• (2021) Bender, Emily M., Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major and Shmargaret Shmitchell. On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜. FAccT '21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency.
• (2019) Bender, Emily M. and Alex Lascarides. Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing II: 100 Essentials from Semantics and Pragmatics. Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies.
• (2016) Bender, Emily M., Fei Xia, Joshua Crowgey, and Michael Wayne Goodman, William D. Lewis , Glenn Slayden, Ryan Georgi Enriching A Massively Multilingual database of interlinear glossed text Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016
• (2014) Bender, Emily M., Fei Xia, Joshua Crowgey, and Michael Wayne Goodman. Xigt: Extensible interlinear glossed text for natural language processing. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
• (2013) Bender, Emily M. Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing: 100 Essentials from Morphology and Syntax. Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies.
• (2002) Bender, Emily M., Dan Flickinger, and Stephan Oepen. The Grammar Matrix: An open-source starter-kit for the rapid development of cross-linguistically consistent broad-coverage precision grammars. Proceedings of the 2002 workshop on Grammar engineering and evaluation-Volume 15.
• (2002) Siegel, Melanie and Emily M. Bender. Efficient deep processing of Japanese. Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on Asian language resources and international standardization-Volume 12.
• (2000) Bender, Emily M. Syntactic variation and linguistic competence: The case of AAVE copula absence. Stanford University.
• (2000) Bender, Emily M. The syntax of Mandarin Bă: Reconsidering the verbal analysis. Journal of East Asian Linguistics.
• (1999) Sag, Ivan, Thomas Wasow, and Emily M. Bender. Syntactic theory: A formal introduction. Center for the Study of Language and Information.

External links

• Personal page at University of Washington
• Faculty page at University of Washington
• Article by Emily Bender in The Linguist List's Famous Linguists series

References

На других языках

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[de] Emily M. Bender

Emily M. Bender (* 10. Oktober 1973) ist eine amerikanische Linguistin und Professorin an der University of Washington. Ihr Forschungsschwerpunkt liegt im Bereich multilingualer Grammatiken.

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- [en] Emily M. Bender

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