Steven Paul Abney

He was a grammarian, and could doubtless see further into the future than others.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien, "Farmer Giles of Ham"
My area is computational linguistics, which is essentially the place where linguistics and computer science meet. The topics I have worked on, or am currently working on, include parsing, corpora, statistical methods, documentation of endangered languages, human sentence processing, machine learning and language acquisition, information extraction, question answering, spoken dialogue systems, syntax, prosody, and semantics.

Here is my curriculum vitae in brief. I was an undergraduate at Indiana University and a graduate student in Linguistics at MIT. After that I went to Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) in Morristown, New Jersey; then to the Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft at the University of Tübingen, Germany; then to AT&T Labs - Research, in Florham Park, NJ.

I am now a faculty member at the University of Michigan in the Department of Linguistics, with additional appointments in Computer Science & Engineering and the School of Information.