Janyce Marbury Wiebe (1959–2018) was an American computer science specializing in natural language processing and known for her work on subjectivity, sentiment analysis, opinion mining, discourse processing, and word-sense disambiguation.[1][2][3]

Life

Wiebe was born in 1959,[2] in Albany, New York. She majored in English at the Binghamton University, graduating in 1981,[4] and completed a Ph.D. in computer science in 1990, at the University at Buffalo. Her dissertation, Recognizing Subjective Sentences: A Computational Investigation of Narrative Text, was supervised by philosopher William J. Rapaport.[5]

After postdoctoral research at the University of Toronto, she became an assistant professor at New Mexico State University in 1992. In 2000, she moved to the University of Pittsburgh,[3] where she became a professor of computer science and director of the Intelligent Systems Program.[2] She died of leukemia on December 10, 2018.[4]

Recognition

Wiebe was named a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2015.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 ACL Executive Committee (20 December 2018), Remembering Janyce M. Wiebe, ACL Fellow, Association for Computational Linguistics, retrieved 2023-08-23
  2. 1 2 3 Professor Janyce Wiebe, 1959 – 2018, University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information, archived from the original on 2019-02-07
  3. 1 2 Mihalcea, Rada (2019), "In Memory of Jan Wiebe", NAACL-HLT 2019, retrieved 2023-08-23
  4. 1 2 Crompton, Janice (23 December 2018), "Obituary: Janyce Wiebe / Pioneer in AI field; award-winning researcher, Pitt professor of computer science", Post-Gazette, retrieved 2023-08-23
  5. ↑ Janyce Wiebe at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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