Wendy Grace Lehnert is an American computer scientist specializing in natural language processing and known for her pioneering use of machine learning in natural language processing. [1] She is a professor emerita at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. [2]
Lehnert earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Portland State University in 1972, and a master's degree from Yeshiva University in 1974. [2] She became a student of Roger Schank at Yale University, completing her Ph.D. there in 1977 with a dissertation on The Process of Question Answering, [3] and was hired by Yale as an assistant professor. She moved to the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1982. [2] At Amherst, her doctoral students have included Claire Cardie and Ellen Riloff. [3] She retired in 2011. [1]
Lehnert has written both scholarly and popular books on computing, including:
In 1991, Lehnert was elected as an AAAI Fellow. [5]
Wendy Grace Lehnert is an American computer scientist specializing in natural language processing and known for her pioneering use of machine learning in natural language processing. [1] She is a professor emerita at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. [2]
Lehnert earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Portland State University in 1972, and a master's degree from Yeshiva University in 1974. [2] She became a student of Roger Schank at Yale University, completing her Ph.D. there in 1977 with a dissertation on The Process of Question Answering, [3] and was hired by Yale as an assistant professor. She moved to the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1982. [2] At Amherst, her doctoral students have included Claire Cardie and Ellen Riloff. [3] She retired in 2011. [1]
Lehnert has written both scholarly and popular books on computing, including:
In 1991, Lehnert was elected as an AAAI Fellow. [5]