NLP@UIC – Italian Scientists at UIC
February 12, 2014
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
NLP@UIC
Italian Scientists at UIC
Advances in Human-Computer Interaction: Natural Language Processing With a Purpose
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary area of Computer Science whose advances are becoming more and more widespread, as evidenced by Google Translate or Siri. My focus in NLP is what I call "NLP with a purpose": technology that has high potential for societal impact. I will touch on several research projects that run the gamut from educational technology that provides English feedback to students; to modelling natural interactions between elderly people and their human helpers to be mimicked in robotic assistants; to automatically producing summaries of hospital stays for patients, that include information derived from both doctors' and nurses' notes.
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Barbara Di Eugenio is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Chicago campus. There she leads the NLP laboratory. She is a native of Torino, Italy; she obtained her Laurea in Science dell'Informazione from Universita di Torino (1985), and her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania (1993). Dr. Di Eugenio is an NSF CAREER awardee (2002) and she was honored with the 2013 Innovator of the Year award from AWIS Chicago, the local chapter of the Association for Women in Science. Her research has been supported by NSF, ONR, Motorola, Yahoo!, Politecnico di Torino, and the Qatar Research Foundation.
Date posted
Jun 8, 2020
Date updated
Jun 8, 2020