Margaret Masterman

Margaret Masterman (Braithwaite)
Born	4 May 1910(1910-05-04) London
Died	1 April 1986(1986-04-01) (aged 75) Cambridge
Residence	United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Fields	Computational linguistics
Known for	Cambridge Language Research Unit
Notes Husband: Richard Bevan Braithwaite

Margaret Masterman (1910–1986) was a British linguist and philosopher, most known for her pioneering work in the field of computational linguistics and especially machine translation.

Biography

Margaret Masterman was born in London on 4 May 1910 to Charles F. G. Masterman, a politician, and Lucy Blanche Lyttelton, a poet and a writer. In 1932 she married Richard Bevan Braithwaite, a philosopher. They had a son and a daughter.

Work

Margaret Masterman was one of six students in Wittgenstein's course of 1933-34 whose notes were compiled as The Blue Book. In 1955 she founded and directed the Cambridge Language Research Unit (CLRU), which grew from an informal discussion group to a major research center in computational linguistics in its time.

She was one of cofounders of Lucy Cavendish College and its first Vice-President (1965–1975). She was a great-niece of Lucy Cavendish after whom the college is named.

References

• Masterman, Margaret (2005). "Margaret Masterman". In Wilks, Yorick. Language, Cohesion and Form. Studies in Natural language Processing. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-45489-6. 
• Wilks, Yorick (2000). "Margaret Masterman". In Hutchins, William John. Early years in machine translation: memoirs and biographies of pioneers. ISBN 90-272-4586X. 
• http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F1932%2FLCCA%2FLP1

Persondata
Name	Masterman, Margaret Mary
Alternative names	Braithwaite, Margaret Mary
Short description	Linguist
Date of birth	May 4, 1910
Place of birth	London
Date of death	April 1, 1986
Place of death	Cambridge

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