About Dr. Blake
Dr. Blake is an assistant professor in the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC) where she teaches courses on information tools, databases, data mining, and text mining and where she is a member of the Lineberger Cancer Center. Her CV is available (last updated May 2008). 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 UNC, she was a graduate student in the School of Information and Computer Science (ICS) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and 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). Last Updated August 2008 |
Latest NewsAug 2008 NSF funds Towards evidence -based discovery project June 2008 Gillings Innovation Lab project kick-off meeting. May 2008 Sept 2007 Best 2007 JASIST paper award. The papers: Part I , Part II July 2007 CRAW-MRO funds Medical Informatics project (project) |
Catherine Blake, Ph.D. |
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