Wendy G. Lehnert
Wendy G. Lehnert researches natural-language processing and cognitive models. Her work includes extracting information from text and evaluating language systems. Lehnert earned a Yale computer-science doctorate in 1977 and joined Yale’s faculty in computer science and psychology that year. She moved from Yale to UMass Amherst in 1982. She specialized in natural-language processing and cognitive models of human thought. Her work included information extraction and performance evaluation of natural-language systems during the 1990s.
- Works
- 101
- Citations
- 3,335
- h-index
- 23
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Timeline
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1977
Yale doctorate and faculty
Lehnert earned a Yale computer-science doctorate in 1977. She joined Yale’s faculty in computer science and psychology that year.
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1982
Joining Massachusetts
She moved from Yale to UMass Amherst in 1982. She specialized in natural-language processing and cognitive models of human thought.
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1990s
Information extraction
Her work included information extraction and performance evaluation of natural-language systems during the 1990s.
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1991
AI fellowship
She became an AAAI Fellow in 1991, after receiving a 1984 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award for her AI research.
Sources and credits
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