About Dr. Blake
Dr. Blake is an associate professor in the School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UI) where she will teach courses on databases, data mining, evidence-based discovery, and text mining. Her primary research goal is to accelerate scientific discovery by synthesizing evidence from text. Her techniques embrace both automated and human approaches that are required to resolve contradictions and redundancies that are inevitable in the information intensive world in which we live. Her research on Text Mining clusters around three core themes: (1) Language Processing to automate Information Synthesis; (2) Human Information Synthesis; and (3) Medical and Health Informatics.
General terms associated with this research include: Text Mining, Information Synthesis, Collaboration in Science, Information Extraction, and Natural Language Processing, Recognizing Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing, Multi-document Summarization, Medical and Health Informatics. Before joining UI, she was an assistant professor in the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), a graduate student in the School of Information and Computer Science (ICS) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and a graduate and undergraduate student in the Faculty of (Informatics) at the University of Wollongong (UoW) in Australia (Note that Aussies call a School a Faculty). She also worked as a research scientist for what was BHP Melbourne Research Labs (MRL) and as a programmer analyst at what was BHP Information Technology. The research lab is now part of BHP Billiton, and BHP-IT has since been purchased by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Contact Details Graduate School of Library and Information Science
|
HighlightsAugust 2009 June 2009 Aug 2008 NSF funds Towards Evidence-based Discovery. Official & local summary. June 2008 Gillings Innovation Lab project . |
|
Catherine Blake |
