Kenneth Church: Home Page

Northeastern University

Contact

  1. gmail
  2. Northeastern University
  3. GitHub

Home Pages

  1. Personal Home Page
  2. Northeastern University: Computer Science
  3. Northeastern University: The Institute for Experiential AI (EAI)

Bio

Ken Church works on large language models (LLMs). He was an early advocate of empirical methods and a founder of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). He received his PhD from MIT in 1983, and worked for 20 years at AT&T Bell Labs. After that he worked at Microsoft, Hopkins, IBM, Baidu and Northeastern. He has worked on many applicationsof LLMs including web search, academic search, spelling correction, word-sense disambiguation, terminology, translation, lexicography, compression, optical character recognition, speech (recognition, synthesis, and diarization).

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Honors

  1. President of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in 2012
  2. President of ACL SIGDAT (the group that organizes EMNLP) from 1993 until 2011
  3. AT&T Fellow (2001)
  4. ACL Fellow (2015)
  5. ACM Fellow (2023)

Teaching

  1. 2023-Fall: CS 6120
  2. 2024-Spring: CS 7290
  3. 2025-Spring: CS 7290

Publications

  1. Google Scholar (h-index: 72)
  2. Semantic Scholar (h-index: 56)
  3. ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8378-6069
  4. JSALT-2023 Better Together (for me)

Demos

Recommendations for Academic Papers

Startup Company

VecML

Misc

Semantic Scholar Abstracts by Language

Recent Talks

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