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Academic
History
- PhD in Computer Science, Northwestern University, 2002
- MS in Computer Science, University of Chicago, 1998
- BS in Computer Science, Olivet Nazarene University, 1994
Expertise
- Information retrieval
- Human-computer interaction
- Knowledge Management
Selected Publications
- Getting Biologists to (Willingly) Do the Work of a Thousand Annotators (with Marc Light), The AAAI Spring Symposium on Knowledge Collection from Volunteer Contributors, 2005.
- Using Web Frequency Within Multimedia Exhibits (with Ayman Shama, Sara Owsley, Kristian Hammond), Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Conference, 2004.
- Network Arts: Exposing Cultural Reality (with Ayman Shamma, Sara Owsley, Kristian Hammond, Jay Budzik), In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference (NOMINATED FOR BEST ALTERNATIVE TRACKS PAPER), 2004.
- Reference Directed Indexing: Redeeming Relevance for Subject Search in Citation Indexes, Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 2003.
- Search Engine-Crawler Symbiosis: Adapting to Community Interests (with Gautam Pant, Filippo Menczer), Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 2003.
- Reference Directed Indexing: Indexing Scientific Literature in the Context of its Use, Ph.D. Dissertation. Northwestern University (Tech Report NWU-CS-02-7), 2002.
- Automatically Indexing Documents: Content vs. Reference (with Kristian Hammond), In Proceedings of the Sixth International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2002.
- Clustering for Opportunistic Communication (with Jay Budzik, Xiaobin Fu, and Kristian Hammond), In Proceedings of the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference, 2002.
- Supporting Online Resource Discovery in the Context of Ongoing Tasks with Proactive Assistants (with Jay Budzik, Xiaobin Fu, Kristian Hammond), International Journal of Human-Computer Studies – Special Issue on Awareness and the WWW, Vol. 56(1), 2002, 47-74.
- Using Citations to Facilitate Precise Indexing and Automatic Index Creation in Collections of Research Papers (with Kristian Hammond), Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 14(1), 2001, 29-35.
- Guiding People to Information: Providing an Interface to a Digital Library Using Reference as a Basis for Indexing (with Kristian Hammond), In Proceedings of the Fifth International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (NOMINATED FOR BEST PAPER), 2000.
- Jabberwocky: You don't have to be a rocket scientist to change slides for a hydrogen combustion lecture (with David Franklin and Kristian Hammond), In Proceedings of the Fifth International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2000.
- CBR Textuality (with David Wilson), Expert Update, Vol. 3(1), 1999, 28-37.
Work in Progress
- Automatic Highlighting of Bioscience Literature (with Marc Light and Hudong Wang).
- Information Needs in the Biological Sciences: An Analysis of
Query and Access Logs of BioMed Central (with Marc Light).
- Combining Better Measures of Precision and Significance in Retrieval of Scientific Literature Through the Use of Citation Sentences.
- Dominion Parsing: A Fast and Precise Means of Relation Extraction in Bioscience Literature. (with Marc Light and Robert Arens).
Prior Positions
- Chief Technology Officer, Dizpersion, Inc., 2002
- Senior Software Engineer, System Architect, GartonWorks, Inc., 1999-2001
- Research Assistant, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 1994-1996
Professional Affiliations
- Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1998-Present
- Member, ACM Special Interest Group on Human Computer Interaction, 2000-Present
- Member, ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, April 2003-Present
Review and Editorial Work
- Referee, Communications of the ACM
- Referee, Electronic Commerce Research Journal, 2003
- Referee, Intl. Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2004
- Referee, SIGIR Workshop on IR for Question Answering, 2004
- Referee, SIGIR Workshop on Bioinformatics, 2004
- Referee, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2004
Presentations
- Knowledge Management and Text Mining for Bioscience Literature (Invited Talk), NSF Funded Workshop, Frontiers in Genomics: Insights into Protist Evolutionary Biology, May 21, 2004
Committees
- Steering Committee on ITS Knowledge Management Strategies, 2005-Present
- Conference Committee, Ninth International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2004-2005
- Conference Committee, Seventh International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2003
- Working Committee on Management Information Sciences Curriculum, Department of Management Sciences, 2002-2003
Grant Review Panels
- Iowa Informatics Initiative, October 2003-December 2003
Courses
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