Dr. Kathleen Mckeown

Biography

Kathleen R. McKeown is a leading scholar and researcher in the field of natural language processing. She focuses her research on big data, with interests that include text summarization, question answering, natural language generation, multimedia explanation, digital libraries, and multilingual applications. McKeown is the founding director of the Data Science Institute at Columbia University. She leads a large research project involving the prediction of technology emergence based on a substantial collection of journal articles. Her work includes the development of Columbia Newsblaster, an innovative online system that automatically tracks the day's news and demonstrates new technologies in multi-document summarization, clustering, and text categorization. Since joining Columbia University in 1982, she has received numerous honors, including the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985, and she was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics and an ACM Fellow. In 2010, she won the Columbia Great Teacher Award and the Anita Borg Woman of Vision Award for Innovation. She has served in various leadership roles in professional organizations, including as president of the Association for Computational Linguistics and as a board member of the Computing Research Association.

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