Headshot of Dan Jurafsky by Do Pham, Stanford
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DAN JURAFSKY
Reynolds Professor in Humanities,
Professor of Linguistics
Professor of Computer Science
Stanford University
  I study NLP as well as its implications for society and application to linguistics and the other social and cognitive sciences. I am a past MacArthur Fellow and also work on the language of food.
[email protected]
Margaret Jacks 117
Stanford CA 94305-2150

BIO

X/BLUESKY: jurafsky, @jurafsky

CV

PEOPLE

NLP group

WHERE'S DAN?

LANGUAGE OF FOOD
   blog
   seminar
   class
   articles






















   

TEACHING THIS YEAR   
AUTUMN 2025
CS 329R: Race and Natural Language Processing   (co-taught with Jennifer Eberhardt)
Tue 1:30-4:00 PM

WINTER 2025
cs124/ling180:
From Languages to Information

Tu/Thu 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM, Hewlett 200

SPRING 2026
The Language of Food at Stanford's Madrid campus!

FOLLOWING YEAR
On Sabbatical for 2026-2027

FOLLOWING FOLLOWING YEAR
CS124 probably in Winter 2028

Earlier Courses

LECTURE VIDEOS
CS124:     YouTube lecture videos
2012 NLP Online w/Chris Manning:
    - Youtube channel lecture videos
    - Slides






























































































BOOKS
Speech and Language Processing, Dan Jurafsky and James H. Martin, 3rd edition draft chapters Dan Jurafsky The Language of Food, James Beard Award Finalist

2025 ARTICLES     [ALL PUBS]   [GOOGLE SCHOLAR]

Bommasani, Rishi, Sanjeev Arora, Jennifer Chayes, Yejin Choi, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Li Fei-Fei, Daniel E. Ho, Dan Jurafsky, Sanmi Koyejo, Hima Lakkaraju, Arvind Narayanan, Alondra Nelson, Emma Pierson, Joelle Pineau, Scott Singer, Gaël Varoquaux, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Ion Stoica, Percy Liang, and Dawn Song. 2025. Advancing science-and evidence-based AI policy. Science 389, no. 6759 (2025): 459-461.

Tolúlọpẹ́ Ògúnrẹ̀mí, Christopher D. Manning, Dan Jurafsky, and Karen Livescu. 2025. Transcribe, Translate, or Transliterate: An Investigation of Intermediate Representations in Spoken Language Models. Proceedings of IEEE ASRU 2025.

Doumbouya, Moussa Koulako Bala, Dan Jurafsky, and Christopher D. Manning. 2025. Tversky Neural Networks: Psychologically Plausible Deep Learning with Differentiable Tversky Similarity. arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.11035.

Neil Rathi, Dan Jurafsky, Kaitlyn Zhou. 2025. Humans overrely on overconfident language models, across languages. COLM 2025.

Aryaman Arora, Dan Jurafsky, Christopher Potts, Noah Goodman. 2025. Bayesian scaling laws for in-context learning. COLM 2025.

Myra Cheng*, Sunny Yu*, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Lujain Ibrahim, Dan Jurafsky. Social Sycophancy: A Broader Understanding of LLM Sycophancy. [code] Press coverage by MIT Technology Review and VentureBeat.

Nathan Roll, Calbert Graham, Yuka Tatsumi, Kim Tien Nguyen, Meghan Sumner, and Dan Jurafsky. 2025. In-Context Learning Boosts Speech Recognition via Human-like Adaptation to Speakers and Language Varieties. Draft to appear, EMNLP 2025.

Chen Shani, Dan Jurafsky, Yann LeCun, Ravid Shwartz-Ziv. 2025. From Tokens to Thoughts: How LLMs and Humans Trade Compression for Meaning. arXiv.

Aryaman Arora, Neil Rathi, Nikil Roashan Selvam, Róbert Csórdas, Dan Jurafsky, Christopher Potts. 2025. Mechanistic evaluation of Transformers and state space models. arXiv.

Isabel O. Gallegos, Chen Shani, Weiyan Shi, Federico Bianchi, Izzy Gainsburg, Dan Jurafsky, Robb Willer. 2025. Labeling Messages as AI-Generated Does Not Reduce Their Persuasive Effects. arXiv.

Mirac Suzgun, Mert Yuksekgonul, Federico Bianchi, Dan Jurafsky, James Zou. 2025. Dynamic Cheatsheet: Test-Time Learning with Adaptive Memory. arXiv.

Jamie Rosas-Smith, Martijn Bartelds, Ruizhe Huang, Leibny Paola García-Perera, Karen Livescu, Dan Jurafsky, and Anjalie Field. 2025. Constructing Datasets From Public Police Body Camera Footage. ICASSP 2025.

Emma Pierson, Divya Shanmugam, Rajiv Movva, Jon Kleinberg, Monica Agrawal, Mark Dredze, Kadija Ferryman, Judy Wawira Gichoya, Dan Jurafsky, Pang Wei Koh, Karen Levy, Sendhil Mullainathan, Ziad Obermeyer, Harini Suresh, Keyon Vafa. 2025. Using large language models to promote health equity. NEJM AI.

Kristina Gligorić, Tijana Zrnic, Cinoo Lee, Emmanuel J. Candès, and Dan Jurafsky. 2025. Can Unconfident LLM Annotations Be Used for Confident Conclusions? NAACL 2025.

Moussa Koulako Bala Doumbouya, Ananjan Nandi, Gabriel Poesia, Davide Ghilardi, Anna Goldie, Federico Bianchi, Dan Jurafsky, Christopher D. Manning. 2025. h4rm3l: A Dynamic Benchmark of Composable Jailbreak Attacks for LLM Safety Assessment. ICLR 2025.

Anna T. Thomas, Adam Yee, Andrew Mayne, Maya B. Mathur, Dan Jurafsky, and Kristina Gligorić. 2025. What Can Large Language Models Do for Sustainable Food? ICML 2025.

Zhengxuan Wu*, Aryaman Arora*, Atticus Geiger, Zheng Wang, Jing Huang, Dan Jurafsky, Christopher D. Manning, Christopher Potts. 2025. AxBench: Steering LLMs? Even simple baselines outperform sparse autoencoders. ICML.

Cheng, Myra, Sunny Yu, and Dan Jurafsky. 2025. HumT DumT: Measuring and controlling human-like language in LLMs.. ACL 2025.

Kaitlyn Zhou, Haishan Gao, Sarah Chen, Dan Edelstein, Dan Jurafsky, Chen Shani. 2025. Rethinking Word Similarity: Semantic Similarity through Classification Confusion. NAACL 2025

Kaitlyn Zhou, Jena D. Hwang, Xiang Ren, Nouha Dziri, Dan Jurafsky, and Maarten Sap. 2025. Rel-A.I.: An Interaction-Centered Approach To Measuring Human-LM Reliance. NAACL 2025.

*Martijn Bartelds, *Nandi, Ananjan, Doumbouya, Moussa K. B., Jurafsky, Dan, Hashimoto, Tatsunori, and Karen Livescu (2025). CTC-DRO: Robust Optimization for Reducing Language Disparities in Speech Recognition. arXiv.