David Andreoff Evans (born 1948 in St. Louis) is an American scientist in the field of computational linguistics, best known for his research into indexing using natural language processing, and in ontology learning, especially in medical informatics.
Evans attended Stanford University, receiving his Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics there in 1982.
Supported by a grant from Digital Equipment Corporation, he led a research project on "computational-linguistic approaches to indexing and retrieval of text" (CLARIT).
[5] He has made many contributions to the field of computational linguistics and information retrieval,[6] authoring books, many research papers, and is the holder of 25 US patents.
[1] Evans was elected a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics in 1999.