Wendy Grace Lehnert is an American computer scientist specializing in natural language processing and known for her pioneering use of machine learning in natural language processing.
[1] She is a professor emerita at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
[2] Lehnert earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Portland State University in 1972, and a master's degree from Yeshiva University in 1974.
[2] She became a student of Roger Schank at Yale University, completing her Ph.D. there in 1977 with a dissertation on The Process of Question Answering,[3] and was hired by Yale as an assistant professor.
[2] At Amherst, her doctoral students have included Claire Cardie and Ellen Riloff.