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Luke Zettlemoyer

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Senior Research Director at MetaProfessor at University of Washington

🇺🇸 American

Zettlemoyer developed methods that turn ordinary language into instructions a computer can act on. He also co-created ELMo, which represents a word differently depending on its surrounding sentence, helping language systems distinguish meanings such as a river bank from a financial bank.

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Background

Current roles
Senior Research Director 2018-present
Professor 2010-present
Previously
2017-2018Research Lead,
2009-2010Postdoc,
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 7, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26208,986181,472153,957Aug 25, '25Apr 15, '26Jun 15, '26Sep 1, '26
208,986citations as of Sep 1, '26+6,379 since Aug 1, '26
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