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Bonnie Webber

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Bonnie Lynn Nash-Webber (born August 30, 1946)[1] is a computational linguist.[3] She is an honorary professor of intelligent systems in the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) at the University of Edinburgh.[4]

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Education and career

Webber completed her PhD at Harvard University in 1978, advised by Bill Woods,[2] while at the same time working with Woods at Bolt Beranek and Newman.[5]

Career and research

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Webber was appointed a professor at the University of Pennsylvania for 20 years before moving to Edinburgh in 1998.[6][5] She has many academic descendants through her student at Pennsylvania, Martha E. Pollack.[2] After retiring from the University of Edinburgh in 2016,[6][5] she was listed by the university as an honorary professor.[4]

Publications

Webber's doctoral dissertation, A Formal Approach to Discourse Anaphora, used formal logic to model the meanings of natural-language statements; it was published by Garland Publishers in 1979 in their Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics Series.[7] With Norman Badler and Cary Phillips, Webber is a co-author of the book Simulating Humans: Computer Graphics Animation and Control (Oxford University Press, 1993).[8]

With Aravind Joshi and Ivan Sag she is a co-editor of Elements of Discourse Understanding,[9] with Nils Nilsson she is co-editor of Readings in Artificial Intelligence,[10] and with Barbara Grosz and Karen Spärck Jones she is co-editor of Readings in Natural Language Processing.[11]

Awards and honours

Webber was appointed a Founding Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 1990,[6][12] and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2004.[13] She served as president of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in 1980,[6][14] and became a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2012, "for significant contributions to discourse structure and discourse-based interpretation".[15] In 2020, she was awarded the Association for Computational Linguistics Lifetime Achievement Award.

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