Carole D. Hafner
Associate ProfessorDr. Hafner's primary research areas are knowledge representation, natural-language processing, and legal informatics. She recently developed a framework for ontology design and explored its applicability to text analysis and retrieval. Through this research, she has extended ontology models already used in the knowledge-representation and knowledge-sharing fields. The project also has resulted in a computational model of experimental biology knowledge and a prototype system for intelligent information retrieval from a corpus of research articles. This work builds on Professor Hafner's earlier development of the Datalog system for natural-language responses to questions, based on a conceptual framework for understanding knowledge encoded in databases.