Barbara di Eugenio
Barbara di Eugenio researches natural-language processing and its use in education, health care and collaboration. She earned her Penn doctorate in 1993 and joined UIC in 1999. Her work studies discourse and dialogue through empirical corpus analysis, knowledge representation and reasoning. Her shared projects in 2022 included health coaching, culturally aware dialogue and educational interfaces. ACL elected her a Fellow in 2023. Her research career centers on how language systems can support concrete human activities.
- Works
- 240
- Citations
- 3,064
- h-index
- 28
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1993–1999
From doctoral study to UIC
Di Eugenio earned her Penn doctorate in computer and information science in 1993. She joined UIC in 1999. Her research later joined natural-language processing with human-computer interaction and the analysis of discourse and dialogue.
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Research career
Language grounded in conversation
Her research covers language understanding and generation, supported by knowledge representation and reasoning. She uses qualitative and quantitative analysis of language corpora. This empirical work informs interfaces for education, health care, collaboration and human-robot interaction.
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2022
Shared health and education projects
Di Eugenio collaborated with nursing and medical researchers on a virtual health coach and culturally aware dialogue. The work also involved studying tutor-student conversations to develop educational interfaces.
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2023
Recognition in computational linguistics
ACL elected Di Eugenio a Fellow in 2023. Her work includes language generation, tutoring, discourse, agreement measurement and multimodal interaction in health.
Sources and credits
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