Bonnie Lynn Nash-Webber (born August 30, 1946)[2] is a computational linguist.
[3] She is an honorary professor of intelligent systems in the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) at the University of Edinburgh.
[5] Webber was appointed a professor at the University of Pennsylvania for 20 years before moving to Edinburgh in 1998.
[4] Webber's doctoral dissertation, A Formal Approach to Discourse Anaphora, used formal logic to model the meanings of natural-language statements; it was published by Garland Publishers in 1979 in their Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics Series.
[7] With Norman Badler and Cary Phillips, Webber is a co-author of the book Simulating Humans: Computer Graphics Animation and Control (Oxford University Press, 1993).