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Sandra Carberry is a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware with a joint appointment in Linguistics. Her research integrates artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and user modeling to develop intelligent systems for digital libraries, medical decision support, and educational applications. She leads the NLP/AI laboratory and teaches core AI and data mining courses.
Her primary research focuses include:
- Intelligent Interfaces: Developing systems that recognize user goals and generate tailored responses through advanced user modeling
- Digital Libraries: Pioneering methods to extract meaning from information graphics using perceptual effort analysis and Bayesian reasoning
- Medical Informatics: Creating TraumaCASE for generating clinical training scenarios and improving trauma care decision support
- Educational Systems: Building adaptive medical tutoring systems that dynamically adjust case complexity
- Dialogue Systems: Advancing transformation-based learning for dialogue act recognition and cooperative response generation
Her publication trend (2002-2007) reveals a strategic shift toward information graphics understanding, where she established that 61% of graphics convey unique information not present in text. This work combines cognitive psychology with machine learning to recognize graphic intentions through perceptual effort metrics and communicative signals, significantly advancing digital library capabilities.
Key recognitions include:
- James Chen 2006 Award for Best Paper (UMUAI Journal)
- Best Paper Award at Diagrams Conference (2006)
- Springer Best Paper Award at User Modeling Conference (2007)
Funded by NSF grant IIS-0534948, her digital libraries project demonstrates strong grant acquisition capability. Her extensive co-authorship with junior researchers indicates active mentorship, though formal student lists aren't published. University service includes departmental committees and professional activities documented in her vita.
She directs the NLP/AI laboratory, which maintains active research in natural language processing, artificial intelligence applications, and multimodal information systems, with current work extending graphic understanding to complex visual representations.
