Claire Cardie is an American computer scientist specializing in
natural language processing
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. Since 2006, she has been a professor of
computer science
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and
information science
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at Cornell University, and from 2010 to 2011 she was the first Charles and Barbara Weiss Chair of Information Science at Cornell. Her research interests include
coreference resolution
In linguistics, coreference, sometimes written co-reference, occurs when two or more expressions refer to the same person or thing; they have the same referent. For example, in ''Bill said Alice would arrive soon, and she did'', the words ''Alice' ...
and
sentiment analysis
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.
Education and career
Cardie is a 1982 graduate of
Yale University
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, majoring in computer science. After working for several companies as a computer programmer, she returned to graduate study in the late 1980s and completed her Ph.D. at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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in 1994. Her dissertation, ''Domain-Specific Knowledge Acquisition for Conceptual Sentence Analysis'', was supervised by
Wendy Lehnert
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.
She has been on the Cornell University faculty since 1994, initially in computer science and since 2005 also in information science. She was an assistant professor (1994–2000) and associate professor (2000–06), before being promoted to a full professorship in 2006. In 2007 she founded a start-up company,
Appinions
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History
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, and she was its chief scientist until 2015. Her doctoral students at Cornell have included
Amit Singhal
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Recognition
Cardie became a Fellow of the
Association for Computational Linguistics
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is a scientific and professional organization for people working on natural language processing. Its namesake conference is one of the primary high impact conferences for natural language proces ...
in 2016. She was elected as an
ACM Fellow
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Computing ...
in 2019 "for contributions to natural language processing, including coreference resolution, information and opinion extraction". She was named to the 2021 class of Fellows of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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