Judith Gelernter, Ph.D.

Newell-Simon Hall #4606 – School of Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University

5000 Forbes Ave.

Pittsburgh, PA 15213

gelern at cs.cmu.edu

Research projects

PaleoLit digital library for paleontology, 2009 http://paleosearch.rutgers.edu/paleo/index.jsp [in development]

With Dong Cao, Jaime Carbonell, Raymond Lu, and Laura Meng at Carnegie Mellon, and Chris Noto at Grand Valley State in Michigan

Anti-Addiction Engine for meta-analysis of drug abuse and addiction data, 2009 http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~lesk/data-merge/ [front end in development],

data merge interface at http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~lesk/data-onto/e.html

With Levent Kirisci, Ty Ridenour, Ralph Tarter, Michael Vanyukov, at the University of Pittsburgh, and Michael Lesk at Rutgers University

MapSearch prototype for the dissertation, 2008

http://scilsresx.rutgers.edu/~gelern/maps

With Michael Lesk at Rutgers University

Research papers (recent)

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. and Lesk, M. (2009). Text mining for indexing maps [Demonstration]. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, June 15-19, Austin, Texas.

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, online at http://www.sigspatial.org/sigspatial-special

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

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, USA.

Gelernter, J. & Lesk, M. (2008). Text mining and classification of maps. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 16-20, 2008.

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 Worksharing 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.

Books and chapters (recent)

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. (2009). Varied Applications of Ontology for Vertical Search, Information Visualization, and Data Fusion. Language Technologies Institute Seminar Series. Abstract at http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/Seminars/LTISeminar/abstract-08-09.htm#Gelernter

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.