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Kathleen McKeown

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Professor at Columbia University

McKeown is a foundational figure in automatic text summarization and natural-language generation. Her Columbia group pioneered systems that combine many news reports into coherent updates, and she later founded the university's Data Science Institute, helping make data science an institutional field.

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Last editorial review: August 10, 2026