Persons Influential in Natural Language Processing
- Daniel Bobrow –
- Rollo Carpenter –
- Noam Chomsky – author of the seminal work Syntactic Structures, which revolutionized Linguistics with 'universal grammar', a rule based system of syntactic structures.
- Kenneth Colby –
- David Ferrucci – principal investigator of the team that created Watson, IBM's AI computer that won the quiz show Jeopardy!
- Daniel Jurafsky –
- Roger Schank – introduced the conceptual dependency theory for natural language understanding.
- Alan Turing – originator of the Turing Test.
- Joseph Weizenbaum – author of the ELIZA chatterbot.
- Terry Winograd –
- William Aaron Woods –
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