Janyce Wiebe

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.