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Chris Manning

Christopher Manning's research concentrates on probabilistic models of language and statistical natural language processing, information extraction, text understanding and text mining, and other topics in computational linguistics and machine learning. Together with Dan Klein, he received the ACL 2003 best paper award.

He received a B.A. in mathematics, computer science and linguistics from the Australian National University in 1989. He earned a Ph.D. from Stanford in Linguistics in 1995. He previously served as an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Computational Linguistics Program and as a lecturer in the University of Sydney Department of Linguistics.

Manning's "bestseller" is Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, Manning and Schütze,(MIT Press, 1999).