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Steven Abney is a professor at the University of Michigan specializing in computational linguistics. His research interests include language technology, encompassing machine translation, speech recognition, and information extraction, as well as digital linguistics and computational psycholinguistics. He has experience working in both academic departments and industrial research labs, focusing on the computational aspects of language and how they relate to cognitive systems. His current research projects involve language digitization, low-resource computational linguistics, and the digital documentation of the Ojibwe language, among other topics. Abney teaches various courses including Mathematics of Language, Computational Linguistics, and Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing. He holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, obtained in 1987, and has contributed significantly to the fields of parsing, semi-supervised learning, and semantics. As a faculty member, he is also affiliated with the Computer Science Engineering and the Michigan Institute for Data Science.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science