Emily M. Bender (https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/) is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington and the Faculty Director of UW’s Professional Master’s in Computational Linguistics. Her research interests include computational semantics, multilingual grammar engineering, the interplay between linguistics and NLP, and societal impacts of language technology. She is the author of two books which present linguistic concepts in a manner accessible to NLP practitioners: Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing: 100 Essentials from Morphology and Syntax (2013) and Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing II: 100 Essentials from Semantics and Pragmatics (2019; with Alex Lascarides), as well as the co-author of recent influential papers such as Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data (ACL 2020) and On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜 (FAcct 2021).