Dan Jurafsky Profile
Dan Jurafsky

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Professor of linguistics and professor of computer science at Stanford and author of the James Beard award finalist "The Language of Food"

San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2008
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Dan Jurafsky
3 years
Here's the 2020 release of draft chapters for Speech and Language Processing, just in time to wish you all a Happy New Year! Enjoy!
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Here's the Autumn 2018 release of draft chapters for Speech and Language Processing! Enjoy!
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Dan Jurafsky
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My lectures from Spring 2021's cs124, "From Languages to Information", our Stanford undergrad course introducing NLP, IR, chatbots, recommendation systems, social networks (+ some guest lectures from @chrmanning !) are now online, hope they're useful!
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(1/3) Introducing string2string, an open-source library from StanfordNLPโ€™s Mirac Suzgun (+me & @pmphlt ) for string-to-string problems, w/traditional & neural algorithms for string alignment, distance measurement, lexical & semantic search, similarity analysis, and more!
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Dan Jurafsky
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Speech and Language Processing 3rd ed. partial draft of 21 chapters at Thanks to all you readers for advice/typos!
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Dan Jurafsky
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Here's the December 2021 release of draft chapters for Speech and Language Processing, just in time for Jim and I to wish you all a Happy New Year! Enjoy!
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Dan Jurafsky
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Here's the Jan '23 release of draft chapters for Speech and Language Processing. This is just a bug-fixing and chapter-refactoring release, to modernize the structure for teaching/learning. Best wishes from Jim and me for a healthy and happy New Year!
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Dan Jurafsky
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The Diversity Innovation Paradox in Science Underrepresented groups introduce scientific novelty, yet it's less likely to bring them academic jobs. Study by @BasHofstra , @viveksck , Sebastian Munoz-Najar Galvez, Bryan He, @jurafsky , & Daniel McFarland.
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Dan Jurafsky
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Planet Word, the world's first interactive museum of words and language, opens next May 31 in Washington, D.C.! Check it out here: . I'm excited to be on the advisory board!
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Dan Jurafsky
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We have a postdoc position available! Come join our project on using NLP and speech to help improve police-community relations!
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We have a postdoc position available! Come join our computational social science project on using NLP and speech processing on body-worn camera data to help improve police-community relations!
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Dan Jurafsky
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New postdoc position in computational social science/NLP with our large multi-disciplinary group studying concepts!! Apply by January 20!
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Dan Jurafsky
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We have a postdoc position available in NLP for Social Science!
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Dan Jurafsky
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Postdoc Fellowships at the new Stanford Data Science Institute! 2-3 year positions, deadline soon, apply by Jan 21!
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Dan Jurafsky
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We have a Speech/Dialogue/NLP postdoc position in our MacArthur-funded project on police body camera footage for improving police-community relations!
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Dan Jurafsky
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We have an interdisciplinary postdoc position available on the science of science, we'd love to have NLP people apply!
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(3/3) We hope string2string will be a valuable asset for researchers & practitioners across NLP, bioinformatics, CSS, and the digital humanities. Join us in the world of strings! Code: Docs: Paper:
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Dan Jurafsky
10 years
What the words "tea" and "chai" tell us about 17th C. international relations. The Language of Food blog is back! http://t.co/eMxoq0p51p
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Dan Jurafsky
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The new Data Science Institute at Stanford has postdoc positions available! Applications due Jan 21:
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Dan Jurafsky
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Maria Guarnaschelli, my amazing editor on The Language of Food, has passed away. I hear Maria's fierce loving voice in my head as I write, reordering and tightening and polishing the narrative arc. Lunch with Maria in Midtown was like being in a movie.
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Dan Jurafsky
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Our paper on the linguistics of social bonding in speed-dating just won the Roger V. Gould Prize! http://t.co/kpaT1pEbh3
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Dan Jurafsky
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The linguistics of #BernieSanders , from @JossFong and linguist Michael Newman
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(2/3) Notable features include the Smith-Waterman, Hirschberg, Wagner-Fisher, and Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithms, neural techniques like BARTScore, BERTScore, and Faiss, sacreBLEU & ROUGE for evaluation, and visualization tools & metrics for interpretation and analysis.
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Yippee! Great review of #TheLanguageOfFood in @NYTimes Holiday Books section by @PeterSokolowski ! http://t.co/tYXxIALY1U
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The Language of Food is a finalist for a 2015 James Beard award! http://t.co/dmpwpmfCKo
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Linguistics of fraud: scientists reporting fake data protest too much ("profoundly", "extremely") @jeffhancock http://t.co/V8Obq5Mz5U
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The Language of Food on public radio! Catch me tomorrow on @KQEDForum Fri 9/24 10:30am-11 http://t.co/jGUcZ0wqYL
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Dan Jurafsky
10 years
Text analysis improves stock price prediction. Data available! #LREC2014 #NLProc http://t.co/DivMmSd5cs
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Dan Jurafsky
9 years
24-hour donut drive-through at sunset. One apple fritter one glazed. http://t.co/Fmul5k86Im
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Dan Jurafsky
10 years
Why you want a "good Chinese restaurant" and not a "Chinese good restaurant" (linguistics!) http://t.co/WjXmwQr6bj @xwaldie
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Dan Jurafsky
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How Twitter language reveals your gender โ€” or your friendsโ€™ http://t.co/8Y87FvDSaV @bgzimmer @TSchnoebelen @jacobeisenstein @dbamman
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Dan Jurafsky
10 years
In bookstores discussing "Language of Food" this week! @Keplers 9/16, @bookpassage SF 9/17, @omnivorebooks 9/18
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You can now read Chapter 7 of "The Language of Food": "Sex, Drugs, and Sushi Rolls" on @HuffPostBooks ! http://t.co/6Gd4WpwBX5
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Dan Jurafsky
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In California, Saving a Language That Predates Spanish and English http://t.co/si57IBrrZv
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Dan Jurafsky
3 years
@jacobeisenstein I loved reading this! Plus the book is super awesome! (And our field needs more textbooks!)
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Dan Jurafsky
9 years
The Language of Food at SXSW! Talk (need badge) Mon 3/16 10:30-10:50, signing (open) at bookstore Sun 3/15 5:00-5:20! http://t.co/OBduAoJPT5
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Dan Jurafsky
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How did turkeys get their name? It's a story of government secrecy, the spice trade, and the origins of the stock market #TheLanguageOfFood
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Dan Jurafsky
8 years
Seattle friends!
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Dan Jurafsky
10 years
We're looking for a postdoc in natural language understanding! http://t.co/hxeA1I8MGu
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Dan Jurafsky
10 years
Language of food, spy edition: @MIT extracts speech from video of potato chip bag vibration. Through soundproof glass http://t.co/oURTBmg9vv
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Why Do Pirates Talk Like That? The Linguistics of Arrrrr! http://t.co/W3z5AUfHdN @lexiconvalley
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Dan Jurafsky
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The language of Yelp reviews helps predict hygiene scores http://t.co/MK5WQxUejD & find food poisoning outbreaks http://t.co/f53wAJGS05
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Dan Jurafsky
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Boston friends! #thelanguageoffood book tour brings me to the Harvard Book Store, 7:00 this Fri Oct 10. http://t.co/LU37bi00Ug
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Dan Jurafsky
9 years
Computational evidence for the steppe origin of Proto-Indo-European from Chang, Cathcart, @dlwh , Garrett http://t.co/OKKLe73ug3
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Dan Jurafsky
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MT @elie Word meaning matters: Why Google switched to numeric captchas - http://t.co/WuzEvflRio http://t.co/3CDnS7ACGQ
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Dan Jurafsky
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@janestasch We don't know why they were taken down! We're looking into getting them back up but meanwhile a subset are available here:
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Dan Jurafsky
3 years
@eagirre @IxaGroup @Hitz_zentroa Congratulations!! Fantastic news and well-deserved!
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Dan Jurafsky
10 years
Tune in to All Things Considered this afternoon, I'm discussing "The Language of Food" with Robert Siegel @npratc
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Dan Jurafsky
10 years
How to get a favor (well, a pizza) online: Say you'll pay it forward, be grateful & communitarian. Data online! http://t.co/uZ2ccZyZlY
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Dan Jurafsky
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@EricFos Not to worry, ~10 chapters still to come. But usually just cleanups and typos during the academic year, back to chapter-writing next summer.
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Dan Jurafsky
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. @haldaume3 Fair enough! Have to see if this generalizes. But for deception, controlling speaker+genre is key but rare, so is a great start.
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Dan Jurafsky
11 years
Elle Magazine covers our new paper on the linguistics of dating http://t.co/0fRulHoFMe
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Dan Jurafsky
9 years
Talking in Bay Area Book Fest panel "Writing Food" this Sunday 6/6 4pm w/ @jwapner , Sandra Gilbert, Cal Peternell! http://t.co/gmqWFuzFPT
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Dan Jurafsky
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@tisjune if you mean phil, i always pronounced his name 'AE g r i (arpabet ae1 g r iy0) (first syllable stress). like angry with no n).
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Dan Jurafsky
10 years
Mid-Autumn Harvest moon, 2nd Ave, NYC http://t.co/9M6fmmRAnL
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Dan Jurafsky
10 years
Stanford's @AndrewYNg joins Chinese giant Baidu as Chief Scientist. Baidu's Bay Area / Beijing AI Lab to hire "up to 200".
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Dan Jurafsky
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. @jonkauffman on Japanese-Med cuisine: "some dishes can come off as a pidgin rather than a fully developed language" #thelanguageoffood
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Dan Jurafsky
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The free online Natural Language Processing class starts March 12! The first week's materials are now available at http://t.co/1Qm4RoFH
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Dan Jurafsky
10 years
Spring in San Francisco means wild garlic, lovely and delicious in mapo tofu. recipe: @fuschiadunlop http://t.co/zlEMY41vYq
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Dan Jurafsky
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Macarons, Macaroons, Macaroni http://t.co/4H5SIJ9J
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Dan Jurafsky
10 years
Our Use Of Little Words Is, Uh, Revealing... http://t.co/REInDc8Sea @jwpennebaker via @nprnews
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Your online food reviews reveal your inner self (or "Sex, Drugs, and Sushi Rolls") http://t.co/o87uZRh4Bo
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Dan Jurafsky
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@LopezGilsinia thanks for asking! but not for at least a couple years, alas, most of the chapter writing only happens in the summers...
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Dan Jurafsky
10 years
fixed url: @fivethirtyeight : combining Yelp review analytics with "close eating" to find America's Best Burrito http://t.co/f7GXA3ZEVh
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Dan Jurafsky
10 years
Daters who hedge (sort of, maybe, a little) can't even commit to their sentences let alone the date. http://t.co/2ik5HznwzH
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Dan Jurafsky
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Ketchup Isnโ€™t as American as You Think http://t.co/PS56FJHB via @slate
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Dan Jurafsky
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@Brad_Marston I don't think so! But then, I can't remember what else it might have been! Mystery!
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