Research

Awarded NSF Grants
Title: Integral: Expanding the NSDL Reach to Traditional Libraries, Amount: $849,997, to run through 11/09.
Title: QIC: Query in Context for Educational Collections, Amount: $149,985, to run through 08/11
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
Wei Xiong, IS – Text Mining in General and Document Clustering
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

Undergraduate Students
Vahid Hamidullah – IntegraL Core Engine
Eric Koppel – Single Sign-on Authentication
Pawel Bokota, CS – IntegraL Plugin

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Mary Ho, IS – IntegraL and Network Security

Formal Ph.D. students
Chris Liberknight – Biometric and Security