Catherine Blake, Ph.D.

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Teaching

  • Next Semester (Spring 2009)
    • INLS613 Text Mining. Now in its fourth year, this course provides students with bOth a theoretical and practical introduction to text mining and focuses on data mining techniques, text representations and methods developed by the computational linguistics community.

    • INLS890-122 Evidence-based discovery This course combines theoretical models from discovery science, with a survey of informatics tools that support discovery. The seminar will show-case the discovery process via a lecture series comprising both discipline and policy champions listed on the link above and thus reveal the synergy between synthesis and discovery and the need for interdisciplinary collaboration.
  • Current Semester (Fall 2008)
    • INLS523 - Concepts and Applications of Databases Databases

  • Previous Semesters
    • At the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - School of Information and Library Science
      • INLS110 - Text Mining (Spring 2006, Fall 2007)
      • INLS461 - Information Tools (As INLS102 in Fall 2005, Fall 2006)
      • INLS110 - Knowledge Discovery (Spring 2005)
      • INLS523 - Databases - Concepts and Applications of Databases (as INLS056 in Spring 2004, as INLS156 in Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2008)


    • At the University of California, Irvine - School of Information and Computer Science
      • Information Retrieval (ICS208) Guest lecturer. Precision and recall module of the graduate IR class in Winter 2001.
      • Programming and Problem Solving (ICS1A) Instructor. Undergraduate Class - (Summer 1999 and 2000)
      • California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) Instructor. Summer class for gifted high school students.
      • Teacher’s Assistant for various Software Engineering (ICS22 and ICS52) and Programming and Problem Solving (ICS1A).
      • Mentoring undergraduates as part of the Computing and Research Association for Women (CRAW).

  • Helpful links for Students
    • Geoff Pullum's Six Golden Rules of giving an academic presentation rules
    • Presentation tips
    • Course frequency within SILS
    • Getting to campus - the bus Schedule