Patrick Herron School of Library and Information Science, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Master's candidate in Information Science, M.S.I.S. with a Computer Science Minor and Bioinformatics Certificate anticipated August 2006
Goal: To study text-based discovery and develop text mining systems
Research Courses Personal

In the fall of 2004 I began experimenting with different concept-based feature representations for automatic text classification and clustering tasks using the NC Health Info community health website collection as a corpus. The goal is to automate the generation of both index & topic term sets for information architecture tasks with the ultimate hope of creating a cataloguing workstation and website topic menu generator. NC Health Info is a joint project of SILS and UNC Health Sciences Library that is funded by a grant from the National Library of Medicine. My research advisor is Dr. Stephanie Haas.

Organization of Information
Knowledge Discovery
Bioinformatics Seminar
Information Retrieval
Data Mining
Strategic Information
Natural Language Processing
Systems Analysis
Databases
Decision Theory
Advanced WWW Programming
Data Structures
Resume
Curriculum Vitae (poetry)
Knowledge Discovery notes
Information Organization notes
The American Godwar Complex
Writing Bio
In the news...
Selected Literary Works
Sofia & Booker
Carrboro Poetry Festival
ibiblio.org
Selected Papers and Presentations

Text Mining

- Automatic Text Classification of Consumer Health Web Sites Using WordNet
- Using WordNet in Document Clustering of a Consumer Health Web Collection
- Beyond Relevance: Text Mining in 2010

Text & Data Mining-related

- Machine Learning for Medical Decision Support: Evaluating Diagnostic Performance of Machine Learning Classification Algorithms
- Scanning The Literature for Pharmacogenomics Knowledge and Information Overload in Drug Discovery: A Review
- An Evaluation of Three Language Parsers
- Designing metaschemas for the UMLS enriched semantic network

Other Topics in Information Science

- Traffic Cameras Fail To Prevent Moral Hazard
- Incompleteness, indeterminacy, and holism in the construction of crosswalks, or why there's no substitute for knowing your data
- We Can Remember It For You Wholesale: An evaluation of Google Desktop as a Personal Information Management tool
- SONIX: UNC School of Nursing Information Exchange Specification

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