Dan Jurafsky

Daniel Jurafsky is a professor of linguistics and computer science at Stanford University, and also an author. With Daniel Gildea, he is known for developing the first automatic system for semantic role labeling (SRL). He is the author of The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu (2014) and a textbook on speech and language processing (2000). For the former, Jurafsky was named a finalist for the James Beard Award. ^[3] Jurafsky was given a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002.

Dan Jurafsky
Jurafsky in 2014
Born	1962 (age 62–63) Yonkers, New York, US[1]
Alma mater	University of California at Berkeley (B.A., 1983; Ph.D., 1992; postdoc, 1992–1995)[2]
Awards	MacArthur Fellowship (2002) NSF CAREER Award (1998)
Scientific career
Fields	Linguistics and Computer Science
Institutions	Stanford University (2003— ) University of Colorado Boulder (1996–2003)
Website	web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/

Education

Jurafsky received his B.A in linguistics (1983) and Ph.D. in computer science (1992), both at University of California, Berkeley; and then a postdoc at International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley (1992–1995).

Academic life

He is the author of The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu (W. W. Norton & Company, 2014).^[4] With James H. Martin, he wrote the textbook Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition (Prentice Hall, 2000).

The first automatic system for semantic role labeling (SRL, sometimes also referred to as "shallow semantic parsing") was developed by Daniel Gildea and Daniel Jurafsky to automate the FrameNet annotation process in 2002; SRL has since become one of the standard tasks in natural language processing.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Jurafsky is Jewish. He is married.^[5] They reside in San Francisco, California.

Selected works

• 2009. Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition, 2nd Edition. (with James H. Martin) Prentice-Hall. ISBN 978-0131873216
• 2014. The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0393240832
• 2023. Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition, 3rd Edition draft. (with James H. Martin)

Honors and awards

• 1998. NSF Career Award
• 2002. MacArthur Fellowship
• 2019. LSA Fellow
• 2022. Atkinson Prizes in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences^[6]