Elizabeth Liddy is a Professor in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University and Director of its Center for Natural Language Processing, where she leads a team of 15 researchers focused on developing human-like language-understanding software technologies. Liddy's research has been continuously focused on applying linguistic theories and technologies to improving information access since her dissertation research in 1988 that won three prestigious international awards for pioneer work in the successful application of linguistic theory to information retrieval.
Since that time, Dr Liddy has successfully applied Natural Language Processing to information access technologies, such as: data-mining, question-answering, automatic multiple-document summarization, cross-language retrieval, knowledge management, and 2-stage web-based retrieval. Her technology has been applied in the domains of business, banking, alternative medicine, patents, travel, public health, international security, crisis management, engineering, and education.
Liddy's research agenda has been continuously supported by
both government and corporate funders for a total of 35 projects.
Her federal funders include the National Science Foundation, National
Institute of Health, NSA, Department of Defense, the CIA, National
Imagery and Mapping Agency, NASA. Corporate sponsors have utilized
her software in a wide range of both internal and external applications
to improve knowledge capture from textual data. Her research has
resulted in 75 professional papers and hundreds of presentations,
both here and abroad. Additionally, Liddy is the inventor on seven
patents in the area of Natural Language Processing.
In the School of Information Studies, Dr. Liddy teaches courses
in Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, and Data
Mining.