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She won the ACL lifetime achievement in 2004, a fellow of the British Academy, etc., it's not like she was completely overlooked in her field, just not a very p
by jmalicki 8y ago
She won the ACL lifetime achievement in 2004, a fellow of the British Academy, etc., it's not like she was completely overlooked in her field, just not a very public figure. Everyone I know in NLP recognizes the importance of her work.
Pretty mainstream search engines like LexisNexis and Bloomberg were around for quite awhile before Google (and her work was even more relevant to pre-web search engines where there were not as many other signals other than the text).