He is the recipient of a 2002 MacArthur Fellowship, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics, the Linguistics Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dan is the co-author with Jim Martin of the widely-used textbook "Speech and Language Processing", and co-created with Chris Manning the first massively open online course in Natural Language Processing. His trade book "The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu" was a finalist for the 2015 James Beard Award. His research ranges widely across NLP as well as its applications to the behavioral and social sciences.