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Brief Biography
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Suzanne Stevenson received a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and
Linguistics from William and Mary, and master's and Ph.D. degrees from
the University of Maryland, College Park. She was a visiting
researcher and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto,
1991-94. From 1995-2000, she was on the faculty at Rutgers University,
holding joint appointments in the Department of Computer Science and
in the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS). She returned to
the University of Toronto in July, 2000, where she is now Associate
Professor of Computer Science, and Vice-Dean, Students, Faculty of
Arts and Science.
Professor Stevenson's primary area of research is computational
linguistics, specifically looking at problems of combining linguistic
and statistical information in natural language understanding and
automatic acquisition of grammatical knowledge from large text
corpora. In July 2000, she received an NSERC University Faculty Award
for her research on these topics. In 1997, she received the NSF CAREER
award for her work in computational modeling of ambiguity resolution
in human language understanding.
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