Barbara J. Grosz
| Barbara Jean Grosz | |
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| Residence | USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields |
Artificial Intelligence Natural language processing Multi-agent systems |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Alma mater |
University of California, Berkeley Cornell University |
| Thesis | The Representation and Use of Focus in Dialogue Understanding (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | Martin H. Graham |
| Doctoral students |
Martha E. Pollack Luke Hunsberger Timothy Rauenbusch Jill S. Nickerson |
| Notable awards |
AAAI Fellow (1990) ACM Fellow (2004) ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award (2008) IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (2015) |
Barbara J. Grosz is the Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences at Harvard University. She has made seminal contributions to the fields of natural language processing and multi-agent systems.
Grosz earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Cornell University in 1969, and master's and doctoral degrees in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971 and 1977, respectively.
Grosz specializes in natural language processing and multi-agent systems. She developed some of the earliest computer dialogue systems and established the research field of computational modeling of discourse.
Her work on models of collaboration helped establish that field and provides the framework for several collaborative multi-agent and human-computer interface systems. Grosz has developed a theory of discourse structure that specifies how discourse interpretation depends on interactions among speaker intentions, attentional state, and linguistic form. She has been using the theory to study the use of intonation to convey information about discourse structure, for instance how tones demark, in spoken language, some of the structure that paragraphs and parentheses indicate in written language.
Grosz established and led interdisciplinary institutions, and advanced the role of women in science. From 2007-2011, Grosz served as interim dean and then dean of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and from 2001-2007 she was the Institute’s first dean of science, designing and building its science program. She currently serves on the Science Board and Science Steering Committee at the Santa Fe Institute.
Grosz is a member of the American Philosophical Society (2003), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004), and the National Academy of Engineering (2008). She is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (1990), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1990), and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (2004).
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