Elizabeth Liddy is a Trustee 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 22 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 technologies, such as: text-mining, question-answering, multiple-document summarization, cross-language retrieval, knowledge management, information extraction, and metadata generation for complex schema. Her technology has been applied in the domains of business, banking, alternative medicine, patents, travel, public health, terrorism, security, crisis management, engineering, and education.
Liddy's research agenda has been continuously supported by
both government and corporate funders for a total of 60 projects.
Her federal funders include the National Science Foundation, National
Institute of Health, NSA, Department of Defense, the CIA, NGA,
ARDA and NASA. Corporate sponsors have used her software in a
wide range of both internal and external applications to improve
knowledge capture from and access to textual data. Her research
has resulted in 90 professional papers and hundreds of presentations,
both in the United States and abroad. Additionally, Dr Liddy is
the inventor of seven patents in the area of Natural Language
Processing.
In the School of Information Studies, Dr Liddy teaches courses
on Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, and Data
Mining.
liddy @ syr.edu