1965–, Computer scientist, linguist
Also known as: Christopher D. Manning
Christopher David Manning is an Australian-American computer scientist and computational linguist who has been one of the central figures in NLP for thirty years. His 1999 textbook with Hinrich Schütze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, was the standard text for a generation of NLP researchers, and his 2014 Speech and Language Processing lecture videos (with Dan Jurafsky) reached an enormous audience.
Manning's research has covered statistical parsing, dependency parsing, sentiment analysis, treebanks (the Stanford Dependencies representation), word embeddings (with Jeffrey Pennington and Richard Socher he co-developed GloVe, 2014), and the broader transition of NLP from rule-based to neural methods. He directs the Stanford NLP Group and is a co-founder of the Stanford AI Lab's modern incarnation as part of the Institute for Human-Centred AI.
Related people: Andrew Ng
Works cited in this book:
- Glove: Global Vectors for Word Representation (2014) (with Jeffrey Pennington, Richard Socher)
- Effective Approaches to Attention-based Neural Machine Translation (2015) (with Thang Luong, Hieu Pham)
- On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models (2021) (with Rishi Bommasani, Drew A. Hudson, Ehsan Adeli, Russ Altman, Simran Arora, Sydney von Arx, Michael S. Bernstein, Jeannette Bohg, Antoine Bosselut, Emma Brunskill, Erik Brynjolfsson, Shyamal Buch, Dallas Card, Rodrigo Castellon, Niladri Chatterji, Annie Chen, Kathleen Creel, Jared Quincy Davis, Dora Demszky, Chris Donahue, Moussa Doumbouya, Esin Durmus, Stefano Ermon, John Etchemendy, Kawin Ethayarajh, Li Fei-Fei, Chelsea Finn, Trevor Gale, Lauren Gillespie, Karan Goel, Noah Goodman, Shelby Grossman, Neel Guha, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Peter Henderson, John Hewitt, Daniel E. Ho, Jenny Hong, Kyle Hsu, Jing Huang, Thomas Icard, Saahil Jain, Dan Jurafsky, Pratyusha Kalluri, Siddharth Karamcheti, Geoff Keeling, Fereshte Khani, Omar Khattab, Pang Wei Koh, Mark Krass, Ranjay Krishna, Rohith Kuditipudi, Ananya Kumar, Faisal Ladhak, Mina Lee, Tony Lee, Jure Leskovec, Isabelle Levent, Xiang Lisa Li, Xuechen Li, Tengyu Ma, Ali Malik, Suvir Mirchandani, Eric Mitchell, Zanele Munyikwa, Suraj Nair, Avanika Narayan, Deepak Narayanan, Ben Newman, Allen Nie, Juan Carlos Niebles, Hamed Nilforoshan, Julian Nyarko, Giray Ogut, Laurel Orr, Isabel Papadimitriou, Joon Sung Park, Chris Piech, Eva Portelance, Christopher Potts, Aditi Raghunathan, Rob Reich, Hongyu Ren, Frieda Rong, Yusuf Roohani, Camilo Ruiz, Jack Ryan, Christopher Ré, Dorsa Sadigh, Shiori Sagawa, Keshav Santhanam, Andy Shih, Krishnan Srinivasan, Alex Tamkin, Rohan Taori, Armin W. Thomas, Florian Tramèr, Rose E. Wang, William Wang, Bohan Wu, Jiajun Wu, Yuhuai Wu, Sang Michael Xie, Michihiro Yasunaga, Jiaxuan You, Matei Zaharia, Michael Zhang, Tianyi Zhang, Xikun Zhang, Yuhui Zhang, Lucia Zheng, Kaitlyn Zhou, Percy Liang)
- Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model (2023) (with Rafael Rafailov, Archit Sharma, Eric Mitchell, Stefano Ermon, Chelsea Finn)
Discussed in:
- Chapter 12: Sequence Models, Sequence Models