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Naicong Li

Senior Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analyst II

Ms. Li  acts as a project team leader to plan, design and manage the implementation of project tasks, and to coordinate activities among team members. She supervises, plans, coordinates, and directs the work of the Institute’s GIS Function, including developing and implementing goals, objectives, policies, procedures, and work standards. Research in ontology-driven semantic technology to be applied in spatially enabled knowledge management system; ontology design for agent movement types; urban growth modeling using agent-based modeling and GIS; collaboration with UCSB on NGA funded research project on spatial web, networked gazetteers. Ms. Li also trains technical personnel as needed.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Linguistic, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1991.
  • M.S. in Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1987.
  • M.S. in Linguistics, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1983.
  • B.A. in French, Peking University, China, 1982.

Other Professional Experience

GIS consultant, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), March 2005 – present.  Programmer for ArcSketch, an ArcGIS extension offering intuitive, symbol driven geographic feature sketching tools, and automate feature class/field/value creation.

GIS Consultant, Jones and Jones Architects and Landscape Architects, May 2004 – March 2005.  Working with domain experts, developed ILARIS, a GIS model for evaluating landscape visual quality, which won the 2006 ASLA Research Category Award of Honor.

Senior Linguistic Analyst at Language Systems, Inc., May 2000 – October 2003.  Responsible for designing and implementing an advanced natural language (text) translation engine using the transfer approach.  Responsible for incorporating the translation engine into Coptrans and MedTrans, which are expectation-based speech-to-speech machine translation applications for law enforcement agencies and hospitals.

Senior Programmer/Analyst at Countrywide Home Loans, Department of Artificial Intelligence, September 1998 – May 2000.   Redesigned and implemented Mustang, a rule based expert system for loan compliance checking, currently deployed in the loan approval process companywide.

Senior Linguistic Analyst at Language Systems, Inc., February 1997 – August 1998.  Designed and implemented a linguistic and knowledge based translation system, including a concept network and the reasoning module, a module that builds semantic representation for the input sentence from the syntactic parsing results, and the module for target language generation. 

Linguistic analyst at Language Systems, Inc. August 1991 – October 1995.  Participated in a project for evaluating various natural language processing systems.  Designed and implemented the morphological analysis module in LSI’s machine translation system. Developed the automatic testing capability for the system.  Designed and implemented a discourse processing module for tracking discourse entities.  Designed and implemented various tools for knowledge based text data analysis and information extraction from texts.

Research Assistant at the Graduate Group of Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo, January 1989 – July 1991.  Participated in research toward developing a theory and computer model for understanding narrative texts.  Specializing in subjectivity and deixes and discourse reference tracking.

Associate Research Scholar for the Aramaic Lexicon project at The Johns Hopkins University, August 1986 – December 1988.  Designed and implemented library functions for maintaining large text and bibliography databases.  Assisted in developing tools for text analysis (morphological and syntactic).  Developed tools for lemma slip creation, concordance creation, bibliography compilation and formatting.

Project Assistant of the artificial intelligence research group SNePS (Semantic Network Processing System), Computer Science Department, State University of New York at Buffalo, September 1985 – August 1986.  Designed and implemented a pronoun resolution module for the group’s cognitive agent system.

Publications and Major Presentations

Li, N., Strout, N., Agrawal, A. and Burgess, P.  (2006)  Building an Urban Growth Model Using ArcGIS Agent Analyst.  Presentation at ESRI 2006 International User Conference, San Diego, California.

Jones, G., Overdorf, C. L. & Li, N. (2005) Developing a GIS Model for Assessing Intrinsic Landscape Aesthetic Quality.  Presentation at ESRI 2005 International User Conference, San Diego, California.

Jones, G. & Li, N. (2004) Giving a Voice to Intrinsic Landscape of Puget Sound: A Case Study for a Landscape Information System (ILARIS).  Presentation at ASLA Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Montegomery, C. A., Li, N., Kass, M. & Zarazua, D. (2003) A Spoken Language Forms Translator for Information Transactions.  NIST Advanced Technology Program.  Cooperative Agreement No. 70NANB8H4055.

Montgomery, C. A. & Li, N. (2002) Issues in Speech-to-Speech Translation.  In Richardson, S. D. (Ed.), Machine Translation: From Research to Real Users, Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, Tiburon, CA. Springer-Verlag, pp. 248-252.

Belvin, R., Montgomery, C. A., Stalls, B. G., Litenatsky, S. H., Li, N., & Arnaiz, A. R. (1997) Machine-aided Voice Translation: Advanced Development Model, Rome Laboratory/IRAA, Contract No. F30602-93-C-0098.

Montgomery, C. A., Stalls, B. G., Stumberger, R. E., Li, N., Belvin, R. S., Arnaiz, A. R. & Litenatsky, S. H. (1995)  The Machine-Aided Voice Translation System.  Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Voice Technologies Applications Conference (AVIOS ’95), pp. 109-111.

Montgomery, C. A., Stalls, B. G., Stumberger, R. E., Li, N., Belvin, R. S. & Arnaiz, A. R. (1994) Evaluation of the Machine-Aided Voice Translation (MAVT) System.  Proceedings of the Workshop on Machine Translation Evaluation: Basis for Future Directions.  November 1992, San Diego, CA.

Montgomery, C. A., Stumberger R. E., Stalls, B. G., Li, N., Belvin, R. S. & Litenatsky, S. H. (1993)  Description of the DBG System as Used for MUC-5.  Proceedings of the Fifth Message Understanding Conference (MUC-5), pp. 121-136.  Sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).  San Mateo: CA.  Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

Montgomery, C. A., Stalls, B. G., Stumberger, R. E., Li, N., Walter, S., Belvin, R. S. & Arnaiz, A. R. (1993) Machine-Aided Voice Translation. Information Management Collection Processing & Distribution, Dual-Use Technologies & Applications Conference, IEEE, pp. 96-101.

Montgomery, C. A., Stalls, B. G., Stumberger, R. E., Li, N., Belvin, R. S., Arnaiz, A. R. & Hirsh, S. B. (1992)  Description of the DBG System as Used for MUC-4.  Proceedings of the Fifth Message Understanding Conference (MUC-4), pp. 197-206.  Sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).  San Mateo: CA.  Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

Zubin, D. A. & Li, N. (1990) Discourse Continuity and Perspective Taking.  Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society, 26.  Included (1995) in J. F. Duchan, G. A. Bruder & L. E. Hewitt (Eds.), Deixis in Narrative (pp. 287-308).  Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Zubin, D. A., Chun, S. A., & Li, N. (1990).  Misbehaving Reflexives in Korean and Mandarin.  Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 16, pp. 338-354.

Li., N. & Zubin, D. A. (1986) Anaphora Resolution in Mandarin.  ESCOL, 3, pp. 335-349
Zubin, D. A. & Li, N. (1986).  Topic, Contrast, Definiteness, and Word Order in Mandarin. Proceedings of the 12th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 12, pp. 292-304.