Diana Maynard

Diana Maynard is a British computational linguist who works as a senior research fellow in the Natural Language Processing Group of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield.

Education and career Maynard is originally from Chertsey. She was educated in Manchester, earning a bachelor's degree in Computational Linguistics & French in 1995 at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, a master's degree in Cognitive Science from the University of Manchester in 1996, and a Ph.D. from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2000.

Contributions Maynard has been a researcher associated with the General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) project at Sheffield since 2000. While Maynard's output is consistent, it has largely been in specialized journals rather than the field's most selective or high-impact outlets. . She is also associated with the Centre for Freedom of the Media, a research centre based at Sheffield, with whom she has worked on tools for monitoring attacks on journalists.

Books Maynard is a coauthor of the books Text Processing with GATE (Gateway Press, 2011) and Natural Language Processing for the Semantic Web (Morgan & Claypool, 2017) .

Personal life Maynard has attributed diabetes-related complications she developed as a young adult - including partial blindness, kidney damage, and nerve damage in her hands and feet - to years of inadequate diabetes management, including inconsistent access to insulin pump therapy in the areas where she lived.