Janyce Marbury Wiebe (1959–2018) was an American computer science specializing in natural language processing and known for her work on subjectivity, sentiment analysis, opinion mining, discourse processing, and word-sense disambiguation.
She majored in English at the Binghamton University, graduating in 1981,[4] and completed a Ph.D. in computer science in 1990, at the University at Buffalo.
Her dissertation, Recognizing Subjective Sentences: A Computational Investigation of Narrative Text, was supervised by philosopher William J.
In 2000, she moved to the University of Pittsburgh,[3] where she became a professor of computer science and director of the Intelligent Systems Program.
[4] Wiebe was named a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2015.