Research
Awarded NSF Grants
Title: ER 2011: Fostering Interdisciplinary Research and Education in Software Engineering, Amount: $12,000, to run through 08/12
Title: QuEST: Revolutionizing Repository Cross-referencing to Transform Discovery of Teaching Materials, Amount: $149,974.00, to run through 09/12
Title: QIC: Query in Context for Educational Collections, Amount: $149,985, to run through 08/11
Title: Integral: Expanding the NSDL Reach to Traditional Libraries, Amount: $849,997, to run through 11/09.
Awarded Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Grant
Title: IntLib: Integrating Library Collections and Services, Amount: $500,000, to run through 12/08.
Informatics Research
Text Mining - General
- Context-sensitive Mining
Dynamic Document Clustering
Semantic Query Expansion
- Normalized Markov Edit Distance
- Relation Extraction
Biomedical Text Mining
- Creating a Lexical Ontology of Abbreviations in the Biomedical literature
- Automatic Query Expansion with Keyphrases and POS Phrase Categorization for Effective Biomedical Text Mining Information Retrieval
- Information Extraction
- Abbreviation Extraction
- Polysemy Extraction
- Mixture Hidden Markov Model
- Digital Libraries
- Integral Project
- Information Visualization
Ph.D. Students
Prat Tanapaisankit, IS – Text Mining, Digital Libraries
Alex Rudiny, CS – Web Mining and Markov Edit Distance
Yiran Wang, IS – Text Mining in General
Said Bleik, IS – Biomedical Text Mining
Lori Watrous-deversterre, IS – Digital Librarries
Master Students
Shamshuzia Syed, IS – Digital Libraries
Chong Wang, IS – Web Mining
Vahid Hamidullah – – Digital Libraries
Undergraduate Students
Eric Koppel – Single Sign-on Authentication
Pawel Bokota, CS – IntegraL Plugin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Mary Ho, IS – IntegraL and Network Security (now Assistant Professor at Drexel University)
Formal Ph.D. students
Chris Liberknight – Biometric and Security (now Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University)