0. Christopher Manning. 1994-12. Ergativity: Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations. Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Linguistics. xiv+282
pp. (Advised by Joan Bresnan – see also my academic ancestors.)
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/Manning-Christopher-ergativity-1994.pdf
1. Lynn Berry. 1998-06. Alignment and Adjacency in Optimality
Theory: Evidence from Warlpiri and Arrernte. Ph.D. thesis,
University of Sydney, Department of Linguistics. vii+300 pp. (Co-advised by Toni Borowsky and Jane Simpson.)
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/Berry-Lynn-rutgers-lib-38309.pdf
2. Sepandar Kamvar. 2004-06. Personalized Search in Self-Organizing
Data Networks. Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Scientific
Computing and Computational Mathematics. xviii+174 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/Kamvar-Sep-phd-thesis.pdf
3. Dan Klein. 2005-03. The Unsupervised Learning of Natural
Language Structure. Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University,
Department of Computer Science. xvi+124 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/Klein-Dan-thesis.pdf
4. Kristina Toutanova. 2005-09. Effective Statistical Models for Syntactic and Semantic Disambiguation.
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Computer Science. xvi+170 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/Toutanova-Kristina-thesis.pdf
5. Roger Levy. 2005-09. Probabilistic Models of Word Order and Syntactic Discontinuity.
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Linguistics. xvi+179 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/Levy-Roger-2005-thesis.pdf
6. Bill MacCartney. 2009-06. Natural Language Inference
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Computer Science. xiv+165 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/MacCartney-Bill-nli-diss.pdf
7. Pi-Chuan Chang. 2009-08. Improving Chinese-English Machine Translation through Better Source-side Linguistic Processing
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Computer Science. xv+139 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/Chang-Pichuan-dissertation.pdf
8. Jenny Finkel. 2010-08. Holistic Language Processing: Joint Models of Linguistic Structure.
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Computer Science. xvi+153 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/Finkel-Jenny-thesis-augmented.pdf
9. Daniel Ramage. 2011-12. Studying People, Organization, and the
Web with Statistical Text Models.
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Computer Science. xvi+162 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/Ramage-Dan-thesis-final-augmented.pdf
10. Rob Munro (Robert Monarch). 2012-06. Processing Short Message Communications in Low-Resource Languages.
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Linguistics. xv+207 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/Munro-Rob-thesis-final-augmented.pdf
11. Marie-Catherine de Marneffe. 2012-11. What’s That Supposed to
Mean? Modeling the Pragmatic Meaning of Utterances.
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Linguistics. xiv+164 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/deMarneffe-Marie-suthesis-mcdm-resave-augmented.pdf
12. Jason Chia-Chen Chuang. 2013-03. Designing Visual Text Analysis
Methods to Support Sensemaking and Modeling.
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Computer
Science. xx+176 pp. (Co-advised with Jeffrey Heer.)
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/Chuang-Jason-dissertation.pdf
13. Mengqiu Wang (王孟秋). 2014-03. Bilingual and Cross-Lingual Learning of
Sequence Models with Bitext.
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Computer Science. xv+149 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/Wang-Mengqiu-phdthesis.pdf
14. Richard Socher. 2014-08. Recursive Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision.
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Computer Science. xiv+190 pp. (Co-advised by Andrew Ng.)
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/Socher-Richard-thesis-augmented.pdf
15. Spence Green. 2014-12. Mixed-Initiative Natural Language Translation.
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Computer Science. xvii+161 pp. (Co-advised by Jeffrey Heer.)
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/Green-Spence-thesis-augmented.pdf
16. Sonal Gupta. 2015-06. Distantly Supervised Information Extraction Using Bootstrapped Patterns.
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Computer Science. xvii+153 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/Gupta-Sonal-thesis-augmented.pdf
17. Angel Xuan Chang. 2015-12. Text to 3D Scene Generation.
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Computer Science. xviii+185 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/Chang-Angel-thesis-augmented.pdf
18. Gabor Angeli. 2016-06. Learning Open Domain Knowledge from Text.
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Computer Science. xi+131 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/Angeli-Gabor-thesis-submitted-augmented.pdf
19. Sam Bowman. 2016-07. Modeling Natural Language Semantics in Learned Representations.
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Linguistics. xvi+158
pp. (Co-advised by Chris Potts.)
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/Bowman-Sam-thesis-final-2016.pdf
20. Natalia Silveira. 2016-08. Designing Syntactic Representations for NLP: An Empirical Investigation.
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Linguistics. xiv+259 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/Silveira-Natalia-dissertation-augmented.pdf
21. Thang Minh Luong (Lương Minh Thắng). 2016-12. Neural Machine Translation.
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Computer Science. xiii+143 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/thang-luong-thesis-augmented.pdf
22. Sida Wang. 2017-08. Learning Adaptive Language Interfaces Through Interaction.
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Computer Science. x+93 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/sida-wang-main-copy-augmented.pdf
23. Danqi Chen (陈丹琦). 2018-12. Neural Reading Comprehension and Beyond.
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Computer Science. xvi+140 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/danqi-chen-thesis-augmented-fixed.pdf
24. Timothy (Tim) Dozat. 2019-05. Arc-Factored Dependency Parsing.
Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Linguistics. x+183 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/tim-dozat-dissertation-augmented.pdf
25. Peng Qi (齐鹏). 2020-08.
26. Yuhao Zhang (张宇浩). 2021-03. (Co-advised with Curt Langlotz.)
27. Kevin Clark. 2021-03.
28. Abigail See. 2021-08. Neural Generation of Open-Ended Text and Dialogue. Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Computer Science. xiv+178 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/AbigailSeeThesis-augmented.pdf
29. Ashwin Paranjape. 2022-08. Neural Systems for Informative Conversations Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Computer Science. xiv+144 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/Ashwin_Paranjape-Neural_Systems_for_Informative_Conversations-Final-2-augmented.pdf
30. Jenny (Yun) Hong. 2023-03. Project Recon: A Computational
Framework for and Analysis of the California Parole Hearing
System. Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of
Management Science and Engineering. xiv+182 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/Jenny_Hong_PhD_Thesis-augmented.pdf
31. Eric Mitchell. 2024-06.
32. John Hewitt. 2024-08. Understanding Language Models through Discovery and by Design. Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Computer Science. xvi+138 pp.
https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/dissertations/HewittThesis-augmented.pdf