Biography:Liz Liddy
Liz Liddy | |
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| Alma mater | Syracuse University (PhD) Daemen College (BS) |
| Known for | Natural language processing |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | SU School of Information Studies |
| Thesis | The discourse-level structure of natural texts : an exploratory study of empirical abstracts (1988) |
| Website | ischool |
Elizabeth DuRoss Liddy is an Emeritus Professor of Information Science and former Dean of the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. She is a pioneer in the field of natural language processing.
Early life and education
Liddy grew up in Utica, New York.[1] She was one of five children, all of whom worked in her father's family business.[1] Liddy attended St. Francis DeSalle High School, where she was awarded a Regent's Scholarship, and eventually attended Daemen College.[1] She was literary editor of her high school year book and edited a literary magazine during her time at college.[2] At Daemen College Liddy studied English language and literature.[1] After graduating Liddy remained in New York, where she volunteered in an elementary school library.[1][2] She joined the Syracuse University School of Information Studies in 1983, where she started a graduate program in library science.[1] She worked as a faculty librarian at Onondaga Community College whilst earning her degree.[2] Here Liddy worked as a Visiting assistant professor, whilst completing her doctorate part-time in information transfer.[3] Her dissertation research involved natural language processing, a computerized approach to analyzing text.[4][5] She was hired to the faculty at Syracuse University whilst completing her PhD.[1][6]
Research and career
In 1994 Liddy was the founding President of TextWise, a semantics-based search engine.[1][2][7] The first product she developed was called Document Retrieval Using Linguistic Knowledge (DR-LINK).[2] She left TextWise in 1999, after growing the number of employees to over 50.[8] She started the Syracuse University Center for Natural Language Processing in 1999,[2] and was honored with the university's Outstanding Alumni Award the following year.[9]
Liddy was appointed Dean of the School of Information Studies (iSchool) in 2008, and held the position for over ten years. She temporarily left the role in 2015.[3] The school was transformed under her leadership, increasing the enrollment of students by over 70% and launching a graduate certificate in data science.[3] She raised over $20 million to support research and development at Syracuse University.[3]
She chaired the iSchool Organization, which connects information science schools all over the world, from 2012 to 2014.[3] Liddy worked to increase the representation of women at the iSchool, through initiatives such as the IT Girls Overnight Retreat – an annual weekend to introduce high school girls to Information Technology.[3] She improved the career development programs of students at Syracuse University, increasing student employment to almost 100% post graduation.[3] Liddy retired as Dean of the iSchool in 2019.[3]
Selected innovations
- , Elizabeth D."User interface and other enhancements for natural language information retrieval system and method" US patent 6026388, published 1995-08-16, issued 2000-02-15
- , Elizabeth D."Natural language information retrieval system and method" US patent 5963940, published 1995-08-16, issued 1999-10-05
- , Elizabeth D."Multilingual document retrieval system and method using semantic vector matching" US patent 6006221, published 1995-08-16, issued 1999-12-21
Personal life
Liddy was married shortly after graduating Daemen College in 1966.[1] She has three children.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 "Entrepreneurial Educator – Daemen Today". https://today.daemen.edu/summer-2019/entrepreneurial-educator/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Elizabeth Liddy on leadership: To stay competitive keep up with information technology" (in en). 2014-05-11. https://www.syracuse.com/news/2014/05/elizabeth_liddy_leadership.html.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 "Dean Liz Liddy Announces Retirement, Plans to Conclude Tenure as Dean of School of Information Studies" (in en-US). 7 September 2018. https://news.syr.edu/blog/2018/09/07/dean-liz-liddy-announces-retirement-plans-to-conclude-tenure-as-dean-of-school-of-information-studies/.
- ↑ Liddy, Elizabeth (2001-01-01). "Natural Language Processing". Center for Natural Language Processing. http://surface.syr.edu/cnlp/11.
- ↑ "Ep. 3 Natural Language Processing, with Liz Liddy" (in en-US). 2019-09-15. https://develomentor.com/2019/09/15/ep-3-natural-language-processing-with-liz-liddy/.
- ↑ "Faculty Emeriti" (in en). http://ischool.syr.edu/faculty/faculty-emeriti/.
- ↑ Chen, Chuanfu; Larsen, Ronald (2014-09-30) (in en). Library and Information Sciences: Trends and Research. Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-54812-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=Sk-qBAAAQBAJ&q=TextWise+liddy&pg=PA31.
- ↑ "Syracuse University iSchool dean, Liddy, to retire after current academic year" (in en-us). Central New York Business Journal. https://www.cnybj.com/syracuse-university-ischool-dean-liddy-to-retire/.
- ↑ "Elizabeth D Liddy" (in en). https://members.educause.edu/elizabeth-d-liddy.
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