Education and career[edit]

Lehnert earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Portland State University in 1972, and a master's degree from Yeshiva University in 1974.[2] She became a student of Roger Schank at Yale University, completing her Ph.D. there in 1977 with a dissertation on The Process of Question Answering,[3] and was hired by Yale as an assistant professor. She moved to the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1982.[2] At Amherst, her doctoral students have included Claire Cardie and Ellen Riloff.[3] She retired in 2011.[1]

The Process of Question Answering: A Computer Simulation of Cognition (L. Erlbaum Associates, 1978)

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Light on the Web: Essentials to Make the 'Net Work for You (Addison-Wesley, 1981)

Strategies for Natural Language Processing (with Martin Ringle, L. Erlbaum Associates, 1982)

The Web Wizard's Guide to Freeware and Shareware (Addison-Wesley, 1982)

Internet 101: A Beginner's Guide to the Internet and the World Wide Web (Addison-Wesley, 1998)

The Web Wizard's Guide to HTML (Addison-Wesley, 2001)

Web 101: Making the Net Work for You (with Richard Kopec, Addison-Wesley; 3rd ed., 2007)

Lehnert has written both scholarly and popular books on computing, including:

Recognition[edit]

In 1991, Lehnert was elected as an AAAI Fellow.[5]

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