Barbara Di Eugenio
Location: (Chicago, IL)
Personal Research Web Page: http://www.cs.uic.edu/~bdieugen/
Keywords: Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Interfaces, Discourse and Dialogue Processing; Educational Technology, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Collaborative Systems; Multimedia Presentations, Conversational Agents for healthcare, Summarization
Posted on: Thursday, May 12th, 2011
Broad Research Area: AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision, Computer Science Education / Educational Technology, HCI / CSCW
Research Interests:
My main area of research is Natural Language Processing (NLP), and its application to human-computer interaction, educational technology, and multimedia systems. My goal is to use NLP to support both education and instruction, and collaboration between human or artificial agents. My group focuses specifically on semantics, and discourse and dialogue processing. All my research has its empirical foundations in both qualitative and quantitative corpus analysis, including data mining techniques. In the last decade I have worked on language interfaces for educational technology, on discourse structure / dialogue act recognition, and on summarization. I am currently exploring a new exciting application area, that of health care, e.g. for assistive robotics, decision support systems for patients, and medical education.
Contact Information:
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