Jaime Carbonell

Jaime Carbonell
Born	(1953-07-29)July 29, 1953 Montevideo, Uruguay
Died	February 28, 2020(2020-02-28) (aged 66)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	MIT, Yale
Scientific career
Fields	Language Technologies, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computational Biology
Institutions	Carnegie Mellon University
Thesis	Subjective Understanding: Computer Models of Belief Systems (1979)
Doctoral advisor	Roger Schank
Doctoral students	Yolanda Gil Michael Loren Mauldin Manuela M. Veloso
Website	www.cs.cmu.edu/~jgc/

Jaime Guillermo Carbonell (July 29, 1953 – February 28, 2020) was a computer scientist who made seminal contributions to the development of natural language processing tools and technologies. His extensive research in machine translation resulted in the development of several state-of-the-art language translation and artificial intelligence systems. He earned his B.S. degrees in Physics and in Mathematics from MIT in 1975 and did his Ph.D. under Dr. Roger Schank at Yale University in 1979. He joined Carnegie Mellon University as an assistant professor of computer science in 1979 and lived in Pittsburgh from then. He was affiliated with the Language Technologies Institute, Computer Science Department, Machine Learning Department, and Computational Biology Department at Carnegie Mellon.^[1]

His interests spanned several areas of artificial intelligence, language technologies and machine learning. In particular, his research focused on areas such as text mining (extraction, categorization, novelty detection) and in new theoretical frameworks such as a unified utility-based theory bridging information retrieval, summarization, free-text question-answering and related tasks. He also worked on machine translation, both high-accuracy knowledge-based MT and machine learning for corpus-based MT (such as generalized example-based MT).