Elizabeth Liddy

Elizabeth D. Liddy is dean and Trustee Professor in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. In 1999, she was appointed director of the schools Center for Natural Language Processing, which advances the development of human-like language understanding software capabilities for government, commercial and consumer applications. Liddy is also an adjunct professor at Upstate Medical University, where she conducts research on medical informatics.

Liddy has led 65 research projects, with the support of numerous government agencies and commercial enterprises and all based on the use of NLP for improved information access and analytics. She has authored more than 110 research papers and given hundreds of conference presentations on her work. Her curriculum vitae provides a listing of these works. In addition, she is a co-inventor on five patents in the area of natural language processing.

Among her many honors, Liddy is a recipient of the Tibbetts Award from the SBIR Program of the U.S. Small Business Administration (1998), the Enterprise Award for Technology from the Upstate New York Technology Business Foum (1998), the Outstanding Alumni Award from SU (2000), the Post-Standard and Syracuse-Federation of Women's Clubs Achievement Award (2005), and the 12th Annual Search Engine Conference Best Paper Award (2007).

In addition, she was elected chair of the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group of Information Retrieval for 2007-09. She is a member of Beta Phi Mu, the library and information studies honor society, and Sigma Xi, the international honor society of scientific and engineering research.

Liddy teaches graduate courses in information retrieval, natural language processing, and data mining. She is also the faculty advisor of Women in Information Technology, a student group that supports and mentors female IT students.    

She holds a bachelors degree in English language and literature from Daemen College (1966) and an M.L.S. in information studies (1977) and a Ph.D. in information transfer (1988), both from SU.

Research Interests

natural language processing, information retrieval, data mining

Teaching Interests

Since then, she has led 65 research projects, all based on the use of NLP for improved information access and analytics. Her research has been funded by a wide range of government agencies as well as commercial enterprises.

Professional Interests

Liddy has authored more than 110 research papers and given hundreds of conference presentations of her work. In addition, she is a co-inventor on five patents in the area of Natural Language Processing. In September 1999, she was named director of Syracuse University's Center for Natural Language Processing. The center's mission is to advance the development of human-like language understanding software capabilities for government, commercial, and consumer applications.

She was elected chair of the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group of Information Retrieval for 2007-09. She is a member of Beta Phi Mu, the library and information studies honor society, and Sigma Xi, the international honor society of scientific and engineering research.

Personal Interests

I enjoy being outdoors, especially kayaking, biking, hiking and cross-country skiing.