NAICONG LI
Senior Research and GIS Analyst
Dr. Naicong Li is a Senior Research and GIS Analyst at the Redlands Institute. She has led the
establishment of the Spatial Decision Support (SDS) Consortium, and is leading the development of the
SDS ontology to systematically represent the body of knowledge in the field of SDS and to organize
various types of resources for SDS. Her recent projects also include modeling for non-native invasive
species management SDS and desert tortoise recovery SDS. Her current research interests include
spatial decision support, knowledge engineering, ontology-based geographical information
representation and retrieval, spatial cognition, and urban growth modeling.
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
Founding member, Spatial Decision Support Consortium: (http://www.spatial.redlands.edu/sds)
GIS consultant, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), 2005. Programmer for ArcSketch, an
ArcGIS extension offering intuitive, semantic driven geographic feature sketching tools.
GIS Consultant, Jones and Jones Architects and Landscape Architects, 2004-2005. Working with domain
experts, developed ILARIS, a GIS model for evaluating intrinsic landscape aesthetic visual quality for
nearshore Puget Sound area, which won the 2006 ASLA Research Category Award of Honor.
Senior Linguistic Analyst at Language Systems, Inc., 1991-1997, 2000-2003. Designed and implemented
a natural language translation engine for CopTrans and MedTrans, which are expectation-based speechto-speech machine translation applications for law enforcement and health-care industries. Designed
and implemented, for multiple Department of Defense projects, natural language processing and
machine translation system modules for semantic processing to creating concept network out of the
syntactic parsing results, semantic reasoning, discourse processing for tracking discourse entities,
morphological analysis and target language generation.
Senior Programmer/Analyst at Countrywide Home Loans, Department of Artificial Intelligence, 19982000. Redesigned and implemented Mustang, a rule based expert system for loan compliance checking.
Associate Research Scholar for the Aramaic Lexicon project at The Johns Hopkins University, 1986-1988.
Designed and implemented library functions for maintaining large text and bibliography databases.
Assisted in developing tools for text analysis (morphological and syntactic), lemma slip creation,
concordance creation, bibliography compilation and formatting.
Research Assistant at the Graduate Group of Cognitive Science, State University of New York at Buffalo,
1989-1991. Participated in research toward developing a theory and computer model for understanding
narrative texts. Specialized in subjectivity, deixes and discourse reference tracking.
Project Assistant of the artificial intelligence research group SNePS (Semantic Network Processing
System), Computer Science Department, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1985-1986. Designed
and implemented a pronoun resolution module for the group’s cognitive agent system.
Selected publications and presentations
Li, N., Raskin, R. Goodchild, M. and Janowicz, K. (to appear) An ontology-driven framework and web
portal for spatial decision support. To appear in Transactions in GIS vol. 16 (s1), 2012.
Li, N., Ervin, S., Flaxman, M., Goodchild, M. and Steinitz, C. (to appear) Design and application of an
ontology for geodesign. Revue Internationale de Gēomatique, Special issue on Geodesign.
Henk, J., Li, N., Murphy, P., Strout, N., Ong, S. and Desmarais, A. (2011) Spatial decision support and
geodesign case study findings. Papers and Proceedings of Applied Geography Conferences 34: 65-73.
Hohmann, M., Li, N., Murphy, P., Stone, S., Morrill, V., Ong, S., Benvenuti, L., Strout, N. and Wong, M.
an (2011) Using Spatial Decision Support to Prioritize Non-native Invasive Plant Species Management.
NMFWA Conference, 14-19 March 2100, Kansas City, MO.
Stewart Hornsby, K. and Li, N. (2009) A conceptual framework for modeling dynamic paths from natural
language expressions, Transactions in GIS, vol. 13 (s1), pp. 27-45.
Stewart Hornsby, K. and Li, N. (2009) Modeling spatiotemporal paths for single moving objects, In: G.
Navratil (Ed.) Research Trends in Geographic Information Science, Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and
Cartography, Berlin: Springer, pp. 151-164.
Li, N. , Daugherty, S. , Paplanus, S. , Strout, N. , Benvenuti, L. , Ong, S. and Wong, M. (2009). Towards
Developing an SDS Solution Portal. Presentation at AAG 2009, March 22-27, 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Kemp, K. , Raskin, R. and Li, N. (2009). Design Considerations For SDS Ontologies. Presentation at AAG
2009, March 22-27, 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Li, N., Raskin, R. and Goodchild, M. (2008) Developing a conceptual framework for spatial decision
support. In Cova, T. J., Miller, H. J., Beard, K., Frank, A. U., Goodchild, M. F. (eds.) Extended abstracts,
5th International Conference, GIScience 2008, Park City, Utah. pp. 121-124.
Murphy, P., Li, N., Averill-Murray, R.C., Burgess, P. and Strout, N. (2008) Smart knowledge capture for
developing adaptive management systems. Proceedings of the 14th Americas Conference on
Information Systems, August 14-17, 2008, Toronto, Canada.
Li, N., Paplanus, S. and Leuteritz, T. (2007) Ontology-driven spatial information retrieval in GRIP.
Presentation at AAG 2007, April 17 – 21, San Francisco, California.
Strout, N., Li, N., Agrawal, A, Burgess, P. and Krantz, T. (2007) Integrating ABM and GIS Technologies for
Modeling Agent Movement and State Change. Presentation at AAG 2007, April 17 – 21, San Francisco,
California.
Li, N. (2007) GIS and Agent-Based Modeling of Complex Spatial Systems. Position paper for the
Specialist Workshop on Agent-Based Modeling of Complex Spatial Systems. April 14 – 16, Santa
Barbara, California.
Li, N. and Henk, J. (2006) Extending Gazetteer Service in Geographic Information Retrieval. Position
paper for the Specialist Workshop on Digital Gazetteer Research and Practice. December 7 – 9, Santa
Barbara, California.
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. and 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. and 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. and Zarazua, D. (2003) A Spoken Language Forms Translator for
Information Transactions. NIST Advanced Technology Program. Cooperative Agreement No.
70NANB8H4055.
Montgomery, C. A. and 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., and Arnaiz, A. R. (1997) Machine-aided
Voice Translation: Advanced Development Model, Rome Laboratory/IRAA, Contract No. F30602-93-C0098.
Montgomery, C. A., Stalls, B. G., Stumberger, R. E., Li, N., Belvin, R. S., Arnaiz, A. R. and 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. and 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. and 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. and Arnaiz, A. R. (1993)
Machine-Aided Voice Translation. Information Management Collection Processing and Distribution,
Dual-Use Technologies and Applications Conference, IEEE, pp. 96-101.
Montgomery, C. A., Stalls, B. G., Stumberger, R. E., Li, N., Belvin, R. S., Arnaiz, A. R. and 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. and Li, N. (1990) Discourse Continuity and Perspective Taking. Proceedings of the Chicago
Linguistics Society, 26. Included (1995) in J. F. Duchan, G. A. Bruder and L. E. Hewitt (Eds.), Deixis in
Narrative (pp. 287-308). Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Zubin, D. A., Chun, S. A., and 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. and Zubin, D. A. (1986) Anaphora Resolution in Mandarin. ESCOL, 3, pp. 335-349
Zubin, D. A. and 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.
Li, N. (1986) Pronoun Resolution in SNePS (SNeRG Tech. Note No. 18). Buffalo: State University of New
York at Buffalo, Department of Computer Science, SNePS Research Group.