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Mitch Marcus is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science. He earned his Ph.D. from MIT in 1978 and joined Penn in 1987 after working at AT&T Bell Laboratories. His research focuses on statistical natural language processing and cognitively plausible models for automatic acquisition of linguistic structure.
Dr. Marcus created and led the Penn Treebank Project, which revolutionized natural language parsing accuracy. He has served as PI on multiple major projects including DARPA LORELEI and GAILA AIX, focusing on unsupervised morphology acquisition and child language acquisition simulations.
Awards:
- Fellow of American Association for Artificial Intelligence (1992)
- Founding Fellow of Association for Computational Linguistics (2011)
Advising: His former PhD students hold positions at institutions including MIT, Johns Hopkins, Google, and Microsoft Research.
Research groups: Directed the Penn Treebank Project and co-led the OntoNotes Project. Currently collaborates on natural language understanding for human-robot interaction.
