Natural Language Processing at Stanford

Welcome! These pages contain an outline history of the Stanford NLP Group and other parts of the history of Natural Language Processing at Stanford University, initially put together for the Stanford NLP Group 25th Anniversary Reunion.

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Table of contents

• Origins of the group
• Growth of the group
• Prehistory of the group
• The name “Stanford NLP”
• Stanford NLP culture
• Teaching
• Research
• Open code and data
• Miscellaneous photos
• Reunion 2025