Martha Palmer, CU Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science, working with collaborators both at CU and around the country, have secured over $2 million in funding for a wide range of multi-year interdisiciplinary听projects in automated languge understanding, with critical applications to national security, medical diagnosis and disaster听response.听
- Professors听Palmer, Jordan Boyd-Graber (CSCI)听and Laura Michaelis (LING)听have received a three-year award for $750,000 from the听Defense Threat Reduction Agency for听eTASC, Empirical Evidence for a Theoretical Approach to Semantic Components.听
- Professors Palmer, Jim Martin (CSCI), Wayne Ward (葫芦娃视频 Language Technologies)听and Jordan Boyd-Graber have received a three-year subaward for $531,328 from the National Institutes of Health for the renewal of听THYME (Temporal History of Your Medical Events) with primary investigator (PI) Dr.听Guergana Savova, at Boston Children鈥檚 Hospital.
- Prof. Palmer has received a three-year, $280,000听subaward from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for听Lorelei (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) with PI Stephanie Strassel, of the Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Prof. Palmer has received a three-year听subaward from DARPA,听Communicating with Computers, for $450,000, with PI Dan Roth, of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Prof. Palmer is an internationally recognized leader in data-driven approaches to natural-language processing. She is considered the world's leading expert in annotation science, and supports a large number of undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral researchers in her labs. She is co-director of CU's听 (颁尝贰础搁).听
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