Dan Jurafsky

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Dan Jurafsky

The Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities

Professor of Linguistics and Professor of Computer Science, School of Humanities and Science

Awards and Honors

  • Richard C. Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, 2022
  • Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2020
  • Fellow, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2020
  • Fellow, Linguistics Society of America, 2019
  • James Beard Foundation Book Award Finalist for The Language of Food

Publications

Journal Articles

Escalated Police Stops of Black Men Are Linguistically and Psychologically Distinct in Their Earliest Moments
Eugenia H. Rho, Maggie Harrington, Yuyang Zhong, Reid Pryzant, Nicholas P. Camp, Dan Jurafsky, Jennifer Eberhardt
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
 May 2023 Vol. 120 Issue 23

Teaching

Degree Courses

2023-24
OB 687: Race and Natural Language Processing

Insights by Stanford Business

Will a Police Stop End in Arrest? Listen to Its First 27 Seconds.
May 30, 2023
Researchers have identified a linguistic signature that can predict whether encounters with cops will escalate. Black drivers hear this pattern as well.
Twelve Business Books to Read in 2017
December 06, 2016
Reading recommendations from the Stanford GSB community.