STEPHANIE HAAS
School of Information and Library Science
CB# 3360, 100 Manning Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
(919) 962-8360
stephani@ils.unc.edu

EDUCATION

9/84-8/89: The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ph.D. in Information Science. Dissertation: Case Hierarchy Based Representations and Procedures for Domain Analysis and the Construction and Porting of Natural Language Interfaces.

7/79-8/82: Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. Master of Arts in Liberal Studies in Arts and Literature.

6/74-12/77: The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut. Bachelor of Science, School of Education. Major: Music; Minor: Education.

HONORS

School of Information and Library Science Outstanding Teaching Award, May 1997.

American Society for Information Science Outstanding Information Science Teacher of the Year, 1996.

Co-author of The Constituent Object Parser: Syntactic Structure Matching for Information Retrieval, selected as one of the six Best Papers of SIGIR '89.

Recipient of the 1988 ASIS/ISI Information Science Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship.

WORK EXPERIENCE

7/89-present: School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Associate Professor, 7/95 - present. Assistant Professor, 7/89 - 6/95.

Courses Taught: Information Models, Database I, Database II, Web Databases, Systems Analysis, Applications of Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval.

SELECTED GRANTS AND CONTRACTS RECEIVED

Pew Charitable Trusts, February, 1999. Presidential Appointments Project. With Martha J. Kumar and Terry Sullivan. Designing and building information system to collect and distribute information for the forms that nominees must submit.

Bureau of Labor Statistics, September 1998, $22,680. Investigation into the Requirements and Structure of a Knowledge Organization for BLS Published Information.

Instructional Technology Award, Spring, 1997, $58,817. Evaluation of an Internet Multimedia Studio. Co-investigator with Bert J. Dempsey, Diane Sonnenwald, and Helen R. Tibbo.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Haas, Stephanie W. & Grams, Erika S. (1999). Readers, authors, and page structure: A discussion of four questions arising from a content analysis of Web pages. Journal of the American Society for Information Science (to appear).

• Haas, Stephanie W. & Grams, Erika S. (1998). A link taxonomy for Web pages. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 485-495.

• Haas, Stephanie W. & Grams, Erika S. (1998). Page and link classifications: Connecting diverse resources. Proceedings of Digital Libraries ’98 – Third ACM Conference on Digital Libraries, 99-107.

• Haas, Stephanie W. (1997). Disciplinary variation in automatic sublanguage term identification. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48, 1, 67-79.

• Haas, Stephanie W. (1996). Natural Language Processing: Toward Large-Scale, Robust Systems. In Williams, M. (Ed.) Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Vol. 31, 83-119.

• Haas, Stephanie W. (1996). Sublanguages and the Automatic Identification of Sublanguage Terms. In Kent, A. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Vol. 58, Suppl. 21. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc. 302-310.

• Haas, Stephanie W., Sugarman, Jeremy, & Tibbo, Helen R. (1996). A text filter for the automatic identification of empirical articles. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 47, 2, 167-169.

• Haas, Stephanie W. (1995). Domain terminology patterns in different disciplines: Evidence from abstracts. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval, 137-146.

• Losee, Robert M., Jr. & Haas, Stephanie W. (1995). Sublanguage terms: Dictionaries, usage, and automatic classification. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 46, 7, 519-529.

• Haas, Stephanie W. (1995). Quotations in scholarly text: Converting existing documents to hypertext. Computers and the Humanities, 28, 3, 165-175.

• Haas, Stephanie W. & Losee, Robert M., Jr. (1994). Looking in text windows: their size and composition. Information Processing & Management, 30, 5, 619-629.

• Haas, Stephanie W. (1993). Incomplete sentence quotations in books and journals. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 44,7, 398-405.

• Haas, Stephanie W. & He, Shaoyi. (1993). Toward the automatic identification of sublanguage vocabulary. Information Processing & Management, 29, 6, 721-732.

• Haas, Stephanie W. (1992). Covering the vocabulary of technical abstracts using standard and specialized dictionaries. Journal of Information Science, 18, 363-373.

• Haas, Stephanie W. (1991). Sublanguage analysis using the Case Hierarchy. Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science. 196-202.

• Haas, Stephanie W. (1991). Improving the coverage of technical vocabulary in information retrieval documents using specialized dictionaries. ASIS Workshop on Language and Information Processing. 1-10.

• Haas, Stephanie W. (1990). A feasibility study of the Case Hierarchy model for the construction and porting of natural language interfaces. Information Processing & Management, 26, 5, 615-628.

• Metzler, Douglas P., Haas, Stephanie W., Cosic, Cynthia L. & Weise, Charlotte A. (1990). Conjunction, ellipsis, and other discontinuous constituents in the Constituent Object Parser. Information Processing & Management, 26, 1, 53-71

• Haas, Stephanie W. & Metzler, Douglas P. (1989). The flexibility of case grammar representations: A porting procedure for natural language interfaces. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 31, 535-556.

• Metzler, Douglas P. & Haas, Stephanie W. (1989). The Constituent Object Parser: Syntactic structure matching for information retrieval. ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems, 7, 3, 292-316.

• Metzler, Douglas P. & Haas, Stephanie W. (1989). Constituent Object Parsing and the detection and diagnosis of writing errors. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 142-146.