Stephanie Haas

Stephanie Haas is a former associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, teaching a variety of subjects until her retirement in 2022. Her dissertation "Case Hierarchy Based Representations and Procedures for Domain Analysis and the Construction and Porting of NATURAL Language Interfaces" paved the way for her to research the representation of information to better patient care.

Education

She studied at the University of Connecticut where she received a Bachelor's degree in Music, with a minor in Education, in 1977. In 1982 she received a Master's degree in Arts and Literature at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

Her PhD in information science was awarded in 1989 from the University of Pittsburgh; her dissertation was titled "Case Hierarchy Based Representations and Procedures for Domain Analysis and the Construction and Porting of Natural Language Interfaces."

Career

She was an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1989 to 1995. She then became an associate professor in 1995. She taught Information Models, Database I, Database II, Web Databases, Systems Analysis, Applications of Natural Language Processing, and Information Retrieval.

The research she conducted concentrated on natural language processing, the representation of information, and how that representation impacted the work processes. She worked in connection with the University of North Carolina's Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health researchers on these issues to explore the representation of information in patient records to improve patient care.

During her career she wrote 31 research articles. She worked as an associate professor at the University of North Carolina until her retirement in 2022.

Selected publications

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Mahalingam, D., Mostafa, J., Travers, D., Haas, S., & Waller, A. (2012). Automated Syndrome Classification Using Early Phase Emergency Department Data. Association for Computing Machinery. 373–378.

Recognition

Selected grants

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

Awards

  • Recipient of the 1988 ASIS/ISI Information Science Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship.
  • Co-author of The Constituent Object Parser: Syntactic Structure Matching for Information Retrieval, selected as one of the six Best Papers of SIGIR '89.
  • American Society for Information Science Outstanding Information Science Teacher of the Year, 1996.
  • School of Information and Library Science Outstanding Teaching Award, May 1997.