Martha Palmer is the Helen & Hubert Croft Professor of Engineering in the Computer Science Department, and Arts & Sciences Professor of Distinction for Linguistics, at the University of Colorado, with over 300 peer-reviewed publications. She is a co- Director of CLEAR, an Association of Computational Linguistics Fellow, an Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellow, and a co-editor of LiLT: Linguistic Issues in Language Technology. She has previously served as co- editor of the Journal of Natural Language Engineering, a member of the editorial board of Computational Linguistics, President of ACL, Chair of SIGLEX, and Founding Chair of SIGHAN.