As always, host Bob Barrett selects an Academic Minute to air during The Best of Our Knowledge.
Each week this program examines some of the issues unique to college campuses, looks at the latest research, and invites commentary from experts and administrators from all levels of education.
For this week‘s edition, Bob has selected Stanford linguist Dr. Dan Jurafsky’s probe into the Language of Restaurant Reviews.
Dan Jurafsky is Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. In addition to his work on the linguistics of food, his research ranges broadly across computational linguistics, with special emphasis on the extraction of meaning from text and speech, on the processing of Chinese, and on applications to the behavioral and social sciences and the humanities. He is the co-author of the widely-used textbook Speech and Language Processing, co-created one of the first massively open online courses, Stanford’s online course in Natural Language Processing, is a former fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
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