Daniel Jurafsky – Curriculum Vitae
Full Name: Daniel Jurafsky
Email: jurafsky@stanford.edu
Affiliation: Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in Humanities; Professor of Linguistics and Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Web Profile: https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/
1. Personal and Academic Summary
Dan Jurafsky is a leading scholar in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP), studying how human and machine language interact, semantic understanding, and social applications of language technologies.
He has contributed to foundational work in NLP including early semantic role labeling systems and co-authored the widely used textbook Speech and Language Processing with James H. Martin.
He also writes and teaches about the linguistics of food and culture and has broad interdisciplinary interests spanning language, cognition, and society.
2. Education
B.A. in Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley (1983).
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley (1992).
Postdoctoral Fellow, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley (1992–1995).
3. Professional Appointments
Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in Humanities, Stanford University (current).
Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science, Stanford University.
Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University (past).
Faculty, Stanford Computer Science; affiliated with Stanford Data Science and NLP research initiatives.
Previously faculty at University of Colorado Boulder (1996–2003).
4. Research Interests
Natural Language Processing (NLP) and computational linguistics.
Semantic understanding and language meaning representation.
Human–machine conversation and dialogue systems.
Language in society, including sociolinguistic patterns and computational social science.
Linguistics of food, culture, and human behavior.
5. Honors and Awards
MacArthur Fellowship (2002) — prestigious “Genius Grant.”
NSF CAREER Award (1998).
Fellow, Linguistic Society of America (LSA).
Richard C. Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, National Academy of Sciences (2022).
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His book The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu was a James Beard Award finalist.
6. Major Publications and Contributions
Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to NLP, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition (with James H. Martin) — foundational textbook in NLP.
Numerous influential papers in semantic role labeling, language modeling, and computational linguistics research.
Contributions to understanding language in social, cognitive, and technological contexts.