Chris Manning

Christopher Manning is the inaugural Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning in the Departments of Computer Science and Linguistics at Stanford University, Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL), and an Associate Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI). His research goal is computers that can intelligently process, understand, and generate human language. Manning is the most-cited researcher within NLP, with best paper awards at ACL, Coling, EMNLP, and CHI and well-known work on applying deep neural networks to NLP, including neural machine translation, parsing, sentiment analysis, natural language inference, question answering, and summarization. He founded the Stanford NLP group and manages development of the Stanford CoreNLP and Stanza software.