Daniel Jurafsky is a professor of linguistics and computer science at Stanford University, and also an author.

With Daniel Gildea, he is known for developing the first automatic system for semantic role labeling (SRL).

He is the author of The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu (W. W. Norton & Company, 2014).

[4] With James H. Martin, he wrote the textbook Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition (Prentice Hall, 2000).

The first automatic system for semantic role labeling (SRL, sometimes also referred to as "shallow semantic parsing") was developed by Daniel Gildea and Daniel Jurafsky to automate the FrameNet annotation process in 2002; SRL has since become one of the standard tasks in natural language processing.