Suzanne Stevenson
Suzanne Stevenson received a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Linguistics from William and Mary, and master's and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park. She was a visiting researcher and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, 1991-94. From 1995-2000, she was on the faculty at Rutgers University, holding joint appointments in the Department of Computer Science and in the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS). She returned to the University of Toronto in July, 2000, where she is now Professor of Computer Science.
Professor Stevenson's primary areas of research are computational linguistics and cognitive science, specifically focusing on computational cognitive modeling of child language acquisition and adult language processing, and on the automatic acquisition of semantic and syntactic knowledge from large text corpora.
Suzanne Stevenson's research is in computational linguistics and cognitive science. She take a highly multidisciplinary approach integrating computational theories and techniques with insights from the fields of linguistics and psycholinguistics. Most of her work is in cognitive science, developing computational cognitive models of how people learn and process language, with a focus on meaning, especially word-level semantics, and pragmatics. Her work in CL involves machine learning of semantic and syntactic information from text data, showing how linguistic knowledge or cognitive principles can help guide the learning process.
Education
- PhD, University of Maryland