Stephanie Haas

Stephanie Haas is a retired American information scientist and award-winning educator. In her research, she worked with colleagues at the University of North Carolina's Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health on the representation of information in patient health records to improve patient care.

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Life

Haas studied at the University of Connecticut where she received a B.S. in Music, with a minor in Education, in 1977. In 1982 she received a M.A. in Arts and Literature at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Her Ph.D. in Information Science, dissertation titled "Case Hierarchy Based Representations and Procedures for Domain Analysis and the Construction and Porting of Natural Language Interfaces," was awarded in 1989 from the University of Pittsburgh.

Contributions

Haas joined the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill as an Assistant Professor (1989 to 1995) and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1995. She taught Information Models, Database I, Database II, Web Databases, Systems Analysis, Applications of Natural Language Processing, and Information Retrieval.

She conducted research on natural language processing, the representation of information, and the impact of information on work processes. She directed a project funded by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,[1] "Investigation into the Requirements and Structure of a Knowledge Organization for BLS Published Information" (1998). She led development of the statistical interactive glossary (SIG) as a member of the NSF-funded GovStat Project (2002-2005) based at UNC and the University of Maryland. She collaborated with emergency department triage and operations expert Dr. Debbie Travers (UNC School of Nursing) on several studies of charting vocabulary and notations processing, publishing their work in Academic Emergency Medicine (2004), Journal of Biomedical Informatics (2003), and Public Health Resources (2008) among others. She was part of a public health study of surveillance data for outbreak management at North Carolina local health departments, published in 2012. During her career she wrote over 50 research articles. She retired from UNC in 2022.

Publications

Mahalingam, D., Mostafa, J., Travers, D., Haas, S., & Waller, A. (2012). Automated syndrome classification using early phase Emergency Department data. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI '12) (pp. 373–378). New York: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2110363.2110406
Haas, S.W., Travers, D.A. and Kramer-Duffield, J. (2007). What is an event? Domain constraints for temporal analysis of chief complaints and triage notes. Proceedings of ASIST 44. https://doi.org/10.1002/meet.1450440354
Haas, S.W. (1997). Disciplinary variation in automatic sublanguage term identification. JASIS 48 (1): 67-79. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199701)48:1%3C67::AID-ASI8%3E3.0.CO;2-%23
Haas, S.W. (1993). Incomplete sentence quotations in books and journals. JASIS 44 (7): 398-405. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199308)44:7%3C398::AID-ASI5%3E3.0.CO;2-%23
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-4573(90)90105-B
Metzler, D.P., Haas, S.W., Cosic, C.L. and Wheeler, L.H. (1989). Constituent object parsing for information retrieval and similar text processing problems. JASIS 40 (6): 398-423. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198911)40:6<398::AID-ASI3>3.0.CO;2-L

Awards

UNC SILS Commencement Ceremony Speaker, Spring 2022
UNC SILS Edward G. Holley for the Good of the Order Award, 2012
UNC SILS Francis Carroll McColl Term Professor, 2005-2007
UNC SILS Deborah Barreau Award for Teaching Excellence, 1997, 2006, 2012, 2017
ASIS Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award, 1996
ASIS/ISI Information Science Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship, 1988

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