Christopher Potts
Christopher Potts is a StanfordStanford UniversityStanford University is a research university in California founded by Leland and Jane Stanford in 1885 and opened in 1891.Open the full entry linguistics professor working on semantics, pragmatics and computational linguistics, and a co-author of the Stanford Sentiment Treebank paper.
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1999–2003Linguistics education
Potts earned a bachelor’s degree at New York University in 1999, majoring in linguistics and minoring in German, followed by a master’s in 2000 and a PhD in 2003 at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[1]
2003Conventional implicature research
His dissertation, The Logic of Conventional Implicature, studied conventional implicatures and formed part of his research in semantics and pragmatics.[2]
2003–2020Academic appointments
He taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2003 to 2009, joined Stanford in 2009, became a professor in 2016 and began serving as linguistics department chair in 2020.[1]
2013Stanford Sentiment Treebank
Potts co-authored the Stanford Sentiment Treebank paper with Richard SocherRichard SocherRichard Socher is an AI researcher, entrepreneur and investor. He is co-founder and CEO of Recursive, founder and CEO of You.com, and co-founder and managing partner of AIX Ventures. A Stanford computer science PhD, he contributed to the Stanford Sentiment Treebank and GloVe, founded MetaMind, and served as chief scientist at Salesforce.Open the full entry, Christopher ManningChristopher ManningChristopher Manning is a natural language processing researcher and Stanford professor emeritus, a former Stanford AI Lab director and an AIX Ventures investor. He collaborated with Richard Socher on recursive neural networks, sentiment analysis and word vectors.Open the full entry and colleagues, connecting linguistic structure with fine-grained sentiment analysis.[3]
Research: Meaning, context and inference
2023Test-of-Time recognition
The Stanford Sentiment Treebank paper received the ACL 2023 Test-of-Time Paper Award, with Potts among its co-authors.[6]
Sources
- Christopher Potts’ Profile (opens in a new window)
- Research Areas (opens in a new window)
- Recursive Deep Models for Semantic Compositionality Over a Sentiment Treebank (opens in a new window)
- Pragmatics (opens in a new window)
- Christopher G. Potts (opens in a new window)
- Announcement of the 2023 ACL Test-of-Time Paper Award (opens in a new window)