Christopher David Manning (born September 18, 1965) is a computer scientist and applied linguist whose research in the areas of natural language processing, artificial intelligence and machine learning is considered highly influential.
Manning has been described as “the leading researcher in natural language processing”,[1] well known for co-developing GloVe word vectors; the bilinear or multiplicative form of attention, now widely used in artificial neural networks including the transformer; tree-structured recursive neural networks; and approaches to and systems for Textual entailment.
Manning also pioneered the development of well-maintained open source computational linguistics software packages, including CoreNLP, Stanza, and GloVe.
Manning was awarded the IEEE John von Neumann Medal “for advances in computational representation and analysis of natural language” in 2024.
Manning's PhD students include Dan Klein, Sepandar Kamvar, Richard Socher, and Danqi Chen.