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Dr. Natalie Parde joins UIC as Assistant Professor and Co-Director of NLP Lab

Posted on January 11, 2019

Natalie Parde received her Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas in 2018, where she was also a member of the Human Intelligence and Language…

Dr. Rachel Harsley earns a spot on Crain's Tech 50 of 2018

Posted on July 22, 2018

Dr. Rachel Harsley, alumna of the NLP Lab, continues her success story by being named one of Crain’s Tech 50 of 2018. “After becoming the first black woman to receive a doctorate in…

Rachel Harsley is honored by NSBE with a Golden Torch award & wins an ACM-W fellowship

Posted on June 27, 2018

Rachel Harsley, Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science, was selected as the Golden Torch Award recipient for Graduate Student of the Year by the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). NSBE is one of…

Nick Green Receives the "50 for the Future" Award from the Illinois Technology Foundation

Posted on June 27, 2018

Nick Green (second from right), Computer Science PhD student, received the prestigious “50 for the Future” award from the Illinois Technology Foundation. This award is designed to recognize and honor the most promising…

NLP Lab Receives the Best Paper Award at ICEduTech

Posted on December 01, 2015

The NLP lab recently received the best paper award at the IADIS International Conference on Educational Technologies (ICEduTech) 2015 in Santa Catarina, Brazil. The paper, “Student Behavior with Worked-out Examples in a Computer…

Lin Chen defends his PhD thesis (May 29, 2014)

Posted on May 29, 2014

Lin Chen successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled: “Towards Modeling Collaborative Task Oriented Multimodal Human-human Dialogues” His committee included: Barbara Di Eugenio (advisor), Milos Zefran (ECE, UIC), Jason Leigh (UHawai’i Manoa), Piotr Gmytrasiewicz…

NLP lab lunch (May 7th, 2014)

Posted on May 07, 2014

We had fun celebrating the end of the AY 13-14 and some nice accomplishments of the past year: three PhD students taking their WCPs (Written Preliminary Exams): Green, Harsley and Randolph three students…

Dr. Barbara Di Eugenio was chosen as the recipient of American Women in Science (AWIS) Chicago's 7th Annual Innovator award (2013)

Posted on June 26, 2013

Dr. Barbara Di Eugenio was chosen as the recipient of American Women in Science (AWIS) Chicago’s 7th Annual Innovator award, “for demonstrating innovative approaches in computational models of Natural Language Processing. Her work…

Prof. Barbara Di Eugenio receives funding from the Qatar Research Foundation

Posted on August 01, 2012

Professor Barbara Di Eugenio received a new award from the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). She is the sole UIC PI, and overall co-PI on a joint project in the total amount of…

Joel Booth PhD Thesis Defense

Posted on October 18, 2011

Joel Booth defended his dissertation on Monday, October 18, 2011. His talk was titled Modeling and Querying Multimodal Urban Transportation Networks.

NLP lab receives support from Yahoo! to mine microblogs

Posted on June 16, 2011

Prof. Di Eugenio has received a $10000 Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement award to support the project “Mining life-stage events and user personas in microblogs”. The project focuses on: 1. Capturing life-stage events. …

3 Ph.D. Students Graduate from the NLP Lab

Posted on June 12, 2010

Davide Fossati, Cindy Kersey, and Swati Tata graduated from the NLP lab. Here is a photo from Commencement 2010.

Lin Chen Won Outstanding TA Award from CS Department

Posted on June 12, 2010

Lin Chen won Outstanding TA award for 2009-2010 academic year from Computer Science department of UIC. Here is the photo.

Swati Tata Defends Her Thesis

Posted on April 09, 2010

Date and time: 19th April 2010, 1:00 PM Location: 219 SEO Committee: Prof. Barbara Di Eugenio, Prof. Peter Nelson, Prof. Bing Liu, Dr. Susan McRoy (University Of Wisconsin, Madison), Dr. Swee Mok (Motorola…

Professor Barbara Di Eugenio Receives Funding from NSF for Using Robots to Serve the Elderly at Home

Posted on May 12, 2010

Barbara Di Eugenio is co-PI on a new NSF award (PI: Milos Zefran, co-PI: Jezekiel Ben-Arie) that aims at developing assistive robots for the elderly. The team will focus on the technological challenge…

Davide Fossati receives the "50 for the Future" award from the Illinois Technology Foundation

Posted on May 12, 2010

Davide Fossati, Computer Science PhD student, received the prestigious “50 for the Future” award from the Illinois Technology Foundation. This award is designed to recognize and honor the most promising technology students in…

Professor Barbara Di Eugenio receives funding from Motorola to develop intelligent summarizer

Posted on May 12, 2010

The NLP laboratory(Dr. Barbara Di Eugenio, director) has obtained new funding from the “Motorola University Partnership in Research” program for “Intelligent Aggregation for Mobile Search.” The project focuses on developing resources and algorithms…

Expert Tutoring and Natural Language Feedback in Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Posted on June 11, 2007

Xin Lu will be defending her thesis this thursday. Details about her defense are outlined below: Location: SEO 1000 Time: 2:00 pm, Thursday, June 21, 2007. Speaker: Xin Lu Advisor: Barbara Di Eugenio…

Davide Fossati receives award for Volunteer Service

Posted on April 18, 2007

The Chancellor’s Student Service Award Committee presents its awards for volunteer service on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 in the Illinois Room of UIC Student Center East. The reception will begin at 5:00 p.m.…

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