Key figure in research on natural language processing by computers
Australian professor of computer science and linguistics Christopher Manning will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The Stanford professor is an expert in artificial intelligence (ai) and a key figure in the research of natural language processing by computers, the university writes.
Manning is the most cited researcher in the field of natural language processing (nlp), according to the UvA. He developed a technology for natural language parsing in the early years of this millennium. He is also the founder of the so-called Glove method for word embedding. This is a technique for converting text into numbers to understand human language. His group has been working on deep learning for nlp since 2010.
The Australian has been at Stanford University in California since 1999, where he also received his doctorate in 1994.
