Judith Gelernter, Ph.D.
School of Computer Science, GHC 6416
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
gelern at cs.cmu.edu
Focus of recent research
Geo-information retrieval; data mining and mapping; attention and inattentional blindness

Research papers (recent and in progress)
Gelernter, J. and Zhang, W. (in progress). A Spanish geo-parser.

Gelernter, J. (in progress). How can we measure and correct for inattentional blindness?

Gelernter, J. (in progress). Make fewer mistakes: Spot rare occurrences more of the time by lessening inattentional blindness

Gelernter, J. and Wu, G. (2012). High performance mining of social media data. XSEDE'12 July 16-20, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Gelernter, J., Carley, K. M. (2011). Spatiotemporal network analysis and visualization. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research, special issue, November 2011 in press.

Gelernter, J. and Mushegian, N. (2011). Geo-parsing crisis messages from microtext. Transactions in GIS. 15(6): 753-773.

Lesk, M. and Gelernter, J. (2011). Use of ontologies for data integration and curation. International Journal of Digital Curation 6 (1), 70-78.

Cao, D., Qiao, X.Q., Gelernter, J., Li, X.F., Meng, L.M. (2011). Mining data correlation from multi-faceted sensor data in the internet of things. China Communications, 8(1): 132-139.

Cao, D., Gelernter, J., Carbonell, J. (2010). Automatic document filing according to user categories. Computing Science and Statistics.

Gelernter, J., Cao, D. and Carbonell, J. (2010). Studies on relevance, ranking and results display. Journal of Computing 2(6)

Gelernter, J, Cao, D., Lu, R., Fink, E., Carbonell, J. (2009). Creating and visualizing fuzzy document classification. IEEE Conference on Man, Systems and Cybernetics, October 11-14, San Antonio, Texas

Gelernter, J. (2009). Image indexing in article component databases. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(8), 1-12.

Gelernter, J. (2008). Data mining of maps and their automatic region-time-theme classification. Presented at The 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2008), November 5-7, 2008, Irvine, CA, USA. Published in The SigSpatial Special, Volume 1, Number 1, November 2008

Gelernter, J. and Lesk. M. (2008). Traditional resources help interpret texts. Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, October 26-30, 2008, Napa Valley California, U.S.A.

Gelernter, J. and Lesk. M. (2008). Is your map here? The 17th International Research Symposium on Computer-based Cartography, September 8-11, 2008, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, U.S.A.

Gelernter, J. (2007). A quantitative analysis of collaborative tags: Evaluation for information retrieval: A preliminary study. The 3rd International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Work Sharing jointly sponsored by Create-Net, and the International Communications Sciences and Technology Association (ICST). Crowne Plaza White Plains, New York, USA, November 12-15, 2007, 376-381.

Books and chapters (recent)
Gelernter, J., Cao, D., Carley, K. (2011). Extraction of Spatio-Temporal Data for Social Networks, in T. Özyer et. al, The Influence of Technology on Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, in press.

Gelernter, J. (2010 submitted). Mining journal article components: the case of map graphics Ed. N. Tang Information Extraction from the Internet. (pp. 57-72). IConcept Press. [ISBN: 978-14563570-0-9]

Gelernter, J. (2009). Intelligent information retrieval for maps. Saarbrueken, Germany: VDM Verlag. ISBN: 978-3-639-14359-1]

Gelernter, J. (2009). Neogeography. In T. Dumova and R. Fiordo (Eds), Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software. [ISBN: 978-1-60566-368-5]

Invited talks
Gelernter, J. (2012). Geo-locating Twitter messages. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. February 28, 2012.

Gelernter, J. (2010). Georeferencing for social network analysis. Center for Computational Analysis and Organizational Systems (CASOS), Carnegie Mellon University, September 21, 2010.

Gelernter, J. (2010). Prototype of a data integration tool. Society for Prevention Research, Denver, Colorado, June 1, 2010.

Gelernter, J. (2009). Varied Applications of Ontology for Vertical Search, Information Visualization, and Data Fusion. Language Technologies Institute Seminar Series.

Gelernter, J. (2009). Methods to improve information retrieval through ontologies and visualization. Digital Library Colloquium, Carnegie Mellon University, January 14th, 2009.

Gelernter, J. (2008). Research in methods to improve information retrieval. State University of New York at Buffalo. November 19, 2008.

Gelernter, J. (2008). MapSearch. Research Seminar, Google, Inc., New York City, July 2, 2008.

Gelernter, J. (2008). A new look at ontologies for information retrieval. Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, May 14, 2008.

Gelernter, J. (2008). The next generation catalog. Simmons College, Massachusetts, May 12, 2008.

Teaching and advising (recent)
Independent research, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, 2008 - present

Introduction to Geoinformatics, Carnegie Mellon University, Information Systems Department, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, spring 2011