Emily M. Bender
University of Washington linguistics professor; developer of the LinGO Grammar Matrix and data statements
- Thomas L. and Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor, Department of Linguistics; Director, Computational Linguistics Laboratory, University of Washington1
Emily M. Bender is the Thomas L. and Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington, where Bender has been on the faculty since 2003, directs the Computational Linguistics Laboratory, and is faculty director of the Professional MS in Computational Linguistics program. Bender's grammar engineering work centers on the LinGO Grammar Matrix, an open-source starter kit for building broad-coverage precision HPSG grammars, developed within the DELPH-IN consortium. Bender has written two books presenting linguistic fundamentals for NLP practitioners and, with Batya Friedman, co-authored Data Statements for Natural Language Processing, which proposes data statements as a documentation practice for NLP datasets. Bender is a past Chair of the NAACL Executive Board and has served on the ACL Executive Board, including as President.123
Work
LinGO Grammar Matrix (external site: matrix.ling.washington.edu)Open-source code
Bender's homepage describes the Grammar Matrix as an open-source starter kit for broad-coverage precision HPSG grammars at the center of Bender's grammar engineering work, and the project page lists Bender first among its contributors.12
Data Statements for Natural Language Processing (external site: aclanthology.org)Published research
Co-author with Batya Friedman of the 2018 TACL paper proposing data statements as a design solution and professional practice for documenting NLP datasets.3
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