Kathleen McKeown explained

Kathleen McKeown
Workplaces:Columbia University
Thesis Title:Generating natural language text in response to questions about database structure
Thesis Year:1982
Doctoral Students:Andrea Danyluk
Ani Nenkova

Kathleen R. McKeown is an American computer scientist, specializing in natural language processing. She is currently the Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science and is the Founding Director of the Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering at Columbia University.

McKeown received her B.A. from Brown University in 1976 and her PhD in Computer Science in 1982 from the University of Pennsylvania[1] [2] and has spent her career at Columbia. She was the first woman to be tenured in the university's School of Engineering and Applied Science and was the first woman to serve as Chair of the Department of Computer Science,[3] from 1998 to 2003. She has also served as Vice Dean for Research in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

She has held the positions of President, Vice President, and Secretary-Treasurer of the Association for Computational Linguistics and has been a board member and secretary of the board of the Computing Research Association.

McKeown's research focuses on natural language processing and has included the Newsblaster multi-document summarization program to derive summary news stories from the contents of a number of news sites;[1] [4] for a few years this included multilingual news.[5]

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  1. http://engineering.columbia.edu/kathleen-mckeown-summarizing-news-automatically "Kathleeen McKeown | Summarizing the News (Automatically)
  2. Generating natural language text in response to questions about database structure. Kathleen Rose McKeown. 1982. University of Pennsylvania. 10329013. phd.
  3. Web site: Columbia honors professors in Low. Karla Jimenez. March 27, 2013. Columbia Daily Spectator.
  4. Kathleen R. McKeown et al., "Tracking and summarizing news on a daily basis with Columbia's Newsblaster", HLT 2002: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, ed. Mitchell Marcus, San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 2002,, pp. 280 - 85.
  5. Web site: An interview with Kathleen McKeown of Newsblaster. Amy Hadfield. SFN blog. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20141105223741/http://www.sfnblog.com/2012/08/29/an-interview-with-kathleen-mckeown-of-newsblaster. 2014-11-05.
  6. Web site: Elected AAAI Fellows . 2024-01-04 . AAAI . en-US.
  7. Web site: Prof. McKeown a Woman of Vision. March 3, 2010. Columbia Engineering, Columbia University. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100608033400/http://engineering.columbia.edu/prof-mckeown-woman-vision. 2010-06-08.
  8. Web site: Kathleen McKeown 2010 Women of Vision Award Winner Acceptance Speech. May 21, 2010. youtube. video.
  9. Web site: CS Professors Named Founding Fellows of Association for Computational Linguistics. February 20, 2012. Columbia Engineering, Columbia University. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120509225448/http://engineering.columbia.edu/cs-professors-named-founding-fellows-association-computational-linguistics. 2012-05-09.
  10. Web site: New 2019 Academy Members Announced. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. April 17, 2019.
  11. Web site: The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2022 .

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