Diana Maynard

This article is about the British computational linguist. For the fictional soap opera character, see Diana Taylor (General Hospital).

Diana Maynard is a British computational linguist who works as a senior research fellow in the Natural Language Processing Group of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield.

Education and career

Maynard is originally from Chertsey. She was educated in Manchester, earning a bachelor's degree in Computational Linguistics & French in 1995 at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, a master's degree in Cognitive Science from the University of Manchester in 1996, and a Ph.D. from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2000.[1]

Contributions

Maynard has been a researcher associated with the General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) project at Sheffield since 2000.[1] She is also associated with the Centre for Freedom of the Media, a research centre based at Sheffield, with whom she has worked on tools for monitoring attacks on journalists.[2]

Books

Maynard is a coauthor of the books Text Processing with GATE (University of Sheffield, 2011) and Natural Language Processing for the Semantic Web (Morgan & Claypool, 2017).

Personal life

Maynard became nearly blind from complications of Type 1 diabetes during her graduate studies.[3][4] Despite these issues she has participated in endurance sports including marathons, triathlons, and long-distance bicycling and swimming.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Brief biography, retrieved 2020-08-11
  2. ^ Academics strengthen research into safety of journalists, UNESCO, 10 July 2019, retrieved 2026-02-09
  3. ^ "Diabetic: Service was appalling", BBC News, BBC, 12 April 2000, retrieved 2020-08-11
  4. ^ "Diana Maynard", DiAthlete, archived from the original on 2020-04-20, retrieved 2020-08-11
  5. ^ "Every Body Swim: Diana Maynard", Great North Swim, 2025, retrieved 2026-02-09
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