13 Facts About Judith Klavans

Judith L Klavans is a linguist and computer scientist.

Judith Klavans has been active in academia, industry and government in furthering the development and application of computational approaches to the study of language, with publications in areas including speech synthesis, machine translation, the development of resources and corpus analysis, internet addiction, information retrieval, and automatic summarization.

Judith Klavans's technologies have been applied in fields ranging from medical informatics, cybersecurity, database interoperability, cultural heritage institutions and Digital Government.

Judith Klavans's dissertation was selected in the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series for updating and publication.

Judith Klavans then went to Columbia University in the City of New York as the founding Director of the Center for Research on Information Access, and co-director of the Digital Government Research Center.

Judith Klavans was appointed by the White House to serve on the President's Information Technology Advisory Board, a bi-partisan science advisory board.

Judith Klavans has been invited to contribute to studies by the National Academies of Science on the role of maps in emergency response; her role in this effort was to focus on the linguistic requirements of response management.

From 2005 to 2013, Judith Klavans was Director of Human Language Technology program at the Foreign Language Program Office of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence or DNI.

Judith Klavans has been heavily involved with increasing the representation of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics fields.

Judith Klavans was active in the CRA-W and served as local New York City representative.

Judith Klavans is a founding member of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology reflecting her long-standing commitment to increasing the number of women and minorities in technical professions.

Judith Klavans was a close personal friend of Anita Borg through the revolutionary Systers group, founded by Borg in 1987.

Judith Klavans is an accomplished flutist, and has performed as a soprano with several well-known choirs.