Naomi Sager
Naomi Sager | |
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Born | 1927 (age 96–97) Chicago, Illinois, US |
Occupation | Professor of computational linguistics |
Known for | natural language processing for computers |
Scientific career | |
Thesis | Seriality and ambiguity in english sentence structure (1968) |
Doctoral advisor | Zellig Harris |
Naomi Sager (born 1927) is an American computational linguistics research scientist. She is a former research professor at New York University, now retired.[1] She is a pioneer in the development of natural language processing for computers.[2]
Early life and education
Sager was born in
Career
After graduating from Columbia, Sager worked for five years as an electronics engineer in the Biophysics Department of the
Her work in linguistics led her to New York University, where she collaborated with James Morris and Morris Salkoff to develop a parsing program based on natural language processing. In 1965 NYU launched the Linguistic String Project under Sager's leadership. It was aimed at developing computer methods to access information in the scientific and technical literature, based on linguistic principles. In particular, the team drew on Zellig Harris's discourse analysis methodology to develop a system for computer analysis of natural language.[6] Sager managed the project for 30 years until her retirement in 1995.[1]
At NYU she taught classes in natural language processing and advised doctoral students, many of whom (such as Jerry Hobbs and Carol Friedman) are now leaders in the field of natural language processing.[1]
Selected publications
- Sager, Naomi. Natural Language Information Processing: A Computer Grammar of English and Its Applications Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. (1981).
- Sager, Naomi. Syntactic analysis of natural language. Advances in computers 8.153–188 (1967): 35.
- Sager, Naomi, et al. Natural Language Processing and the Representation of Clinical Data. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 1:142–160 (March–April 1994).
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Naomi Sager". New York University. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
- ISBN 978-1-4471-4473-1.
- ISBN 978-0-521-63198-3.
- ISBN 978-3-540-55399-1.
- ISBN 3-11-008244-6.
- ^ Sager, Naomi, and Nhan, Ngo Than, "The computability of strings, transformations, and sublanguage", pp. 78–120. Chapter in The Legacy of Zellig Harris, Vol. 2, ed. by Bruce Nevin and Stephen M. Johnson, John Benjamins Publishing Co. (2002)