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: Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
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. The theoretical aspects of my research concern the linguistic analysis, and the knowledge representation and reasoning that support the understanding and generation of NL discourse and dialogue. All my research has its empirical foundations in both qualitative and quantitative corpus analysis, including data mining techniques. In the last decade I have primarily worked in language interfaces for educational technology. 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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