Dan Jurafsky
Stanford professor of linguistics and computer science; co-author of Speech and Language Processing
- Reynolds Professor in Humanities; Professor of Linguistics; Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University12
Dan Jurafsky is the Reynolds Professor in Humanities and a Professor of Linguistics and of Computer Science at Stanford University, and is listed among the faculty members of Stanford's Center for Research on Foundation Models. Jurafsky studies natural language processing, its implications for society, and its application to linguistics and the social and cognitive sciences. With James H. Martin, Jurafsky writes the textbook Speech and Language Processing, whose third-edition draft chapters and slides are published free online, most recently in an August 2026 release.123
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Speech and Language Processing (3rd edition draft) (external site: web.stanford.edu)Published research
Co-author, with James H. Martin, of the textbook, whose draft chapters and slides are posted online for use in classes; the August 19, 2026 release added a new introductory chapter and a combined chapter on transformers, pretraining, and decoding.3
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