Janyce Marbury Wiebe (1959–2018) was an American computer science specializing in natural language processing and known for her work on subjectivity, sentiment analysis, opinion mining, discourse processing, and word-sense disambiguation. [1] [2] [3]
Wiebe was born in 1959, [2] in Albany, New York. She majored in English at the Binghamton University, graduating in 1981, [4] and completed a Ph.D. in computer science in 1990, at the University at Buffalo. Her dissertation, Recognizing Subjective Sentences: A Computational Investigation of Narrative Text, was supervised by philosopher William J. Rapaport. [5]
After postdoctoral research at the University of Toronto, she became an assistant professor at New Mexico State University in 1992. In 2000, she moved to the University of Pittsburgh, [3] where she became a professor of computer science and director of the Intelligent Systems Program. [2] She died of leukemia on December 10, 2018. [4]
Wiebe was named a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2015. [1]
Janyce Marbury Wiebe (1959–2018) was an American computer science specializing in natural language processing and known for her work on subjectivity, sentiment analysis, opinion mining, discourse processing, and word-sense disambiguation. [1] [2] [3]
Wiebe was born in 1959, [2] in Albany, New York. She majored in English at the Binghamton University, graduating in 1981, [4] and completed a Ph.D. in computer science in 1990, at the University at Buffalo. Her dissertation, Recognizing Subjective Sentences: A Computational Investigation of Narrative Text, was supervised by philosopher William J. Rapaport. [5]
After postdoctoral research at the University of Toronto, she became an assistant professor at New Mexico State University in 1992. In 2000, she moved to the University of Pittsburgh, [3] where she became a professor of computer science and director of the Intelligent Systems Program. [2] She died of leukemia on December 10, 2018. [4]
Wiebe was named a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2015. [1]