Claire Gardent is a French computer scientist and linguist specializing in natural language processing, including natural language generation and machine translation.
She is a director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, affiliated with the Lorraine Research Laboratory in Computer Science [fr] (LORIA),[1] She is also past chair of the European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and former editor-in-chief of the journal Traitement Automatique des Langues (Revue TAL).
[3] Her doctoral dissertation, Gapping and VP ellipsis in a unification-based grammar, was jointly supervised by Ewan Klein and Robin Cooper.
[3] She has headed a research group on computational, formal, and field linguistics since 2019.
[1] Gardent is the coauthor of books including: In 2022 she won the CNRS Silver Medal.