Professor  Kenneth W Church Digital Library

Based in Boston, MA, United States
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Kenneth W Church

Bio:

Ken Church works in computational linguistics and related areas such as: web search, language modeling, text analysis, spelling correction, word-sense disambiguation, terminology, translation, lexicography, compression, optical character recognition, speech (recognition, synthesis, and diarization), and more.  He was an early advocate of empirical methods and a founder of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).  Honors: President of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in 2012,  President of ACL SIGDAT (the group that organizes EMNLP) from 1993 until 2011,  AT&T Fellow (2001), ACL Fellow (2015),  ACM Fellow (2023)

Homepage: https://kwchurch.github.io/

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