Madeleine Ashcraft Bates (born c. 1948) is a researcher in natural language processing who worked at BBN Technologies in Cambridge, Massachusetts from the early 1970s to the late 1990s. [1] She was president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 1985, [2] and co-editor of the book Challenges in Natural Language Processing (1993). [3]
Bates was a student at Allegheny College before transferring to Carnegie Mellon University, [4] where she majored in mathematics, graduating in 1968. She completed her Ph.D. in applied mathematics at Harvard University in 1975, [5] working there with Bill Woods on augmented transition networks. [6]
While a student at Harvard, she began working part-time at BBN in 1971. After completing her Ph.D., she was an assistant professor at Boston University for three years before becoming a full-time researcher at BBN. [5]
Bates married chemist Alan Hunt Bates in summer 1968; [4] he later became a professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her mother, Madeleine DeMuth Ashcraft (died 1990), was a long-term sufferer of Huntington's disease, [7] and Bates has been an activist for the treatment of Huntington's disease, serving as president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the committee to Combat Huntington's Disease. [8]
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Madeleine Ashcraft Bates (born c. 1948) is a researcher in natural language processing who worked at BBN Technologies in Cambridge, Massachusetts from the early 1970s to the late 1990s. [1] She was president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 1985, [2] and co-editor of the book Challenges in Natural Language Processing (1993). [3]
Bates was a student at Allegheny College before transferring to Carnegie Mellon University, [4] where she majored in mathematics, graduating in 1968. She completed her Ph.D. in applied mathematics at Harvard University in 1975, [5] working there with Bill Woods on augmented transition networks. [6]
While a student at Harvard, she began working part-time at BBN in 1971. After completing her Ph.D., she was an assistant professor at Boston University for three years before becoming a full-time researcher at BBN. [5]
Bates married chemist Alan Hunt Bates in summer 1968; [4] he later became a professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her mother, Madeleine DeMuth Ashcraft (died 1990), was a long-term sufferer of Huntington's disease, [7] and Bates has been an activist for the treatment of Huntington's disease, serving as president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the committee to Combat Huntington's Disease. [8]
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