Rutgers Communication & Information Scholars Garner Grants to study issues of language, information, communication, social media, and knowledge management.
Rutgers faculty members will be working with the telecommunications firm Telcordia, and with other researchers to solve the problems posed by the explosion in the number of data sources that exist around the world. Including all the data bases maintained by governments and businesses, there are millions of such collections. Much of it is not accessible over the World Wide Web. Professor Paul Kantor in the Department of Library and Information Science, and Professors Tina Eliassi-Rad and Alexander Borgida, both of the Division of Computer Science will work on the “alignment” project with researchers at Telcordia. The $1.6 million grant is sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory.
Professor Mor Naaman, with co-PI and SC&I postdoctoral fellow Nicholas Diakopoulos, have been awarded a National Science Foundation grant from the Division of Information & Intelligent Systems for a collaborative project with Prof. Luis Gravano of Columbia University. The funded project will tackle the challenges of detection and presentation event content from social media sources. The award of $500,000, with $250,000 to support the Rutgers effort, will support a PhD student at Rutgers over its three years duration.
Professors Claire McInerney and Stewart Mohr are part of a team of researchers including Dr. Lynn Clemow of Columbia University (PI), Dr. Elizabeth Clarke, Dr. Alfred Tallia, Dr. Ben Crabtree and Pam Ohman-Strickland of the University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey and Dr. John Orzano, NH Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency who were awarded a two-year $468,000 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIH-NIDDK) to study how use of knowledge management and communication processes can improve health care in chronic disease management. The grant will provide a Research Assistantship for a PhD student in Rutgers School of Communication and Information.
Professors Nina
Wacholder, Smaranda
Muresan and Mark Aakhus have
been awarded a grant from Rutgers University’s Office of
Research for $122,000
to establish an inter-disciplinary laboratory for the Study of
Applied Language
Technologies and Society (SALTS). The goal of this laboratory is
to
establish a distinctive research and educational program at
Rutgers to study
next-generation natural language processing technology that
supports
communication across cultural and social boundaries. Professor
Wacholder is a
computational linguist who studies systems that help people
access information
stored as human language. Professor Muresan
is a computational linguist whose research unifies two central
themes in
human language technologies: computational formalisms to express language
phenomena and induction of knowledge from data.
Professor Aakhus is a
communication scholar who investigates how technological and
organizational design affords and constrains human
interaction and reasoning in solving complex
problems.
Prof. Chirag Shah has been awarded an OCLC/ALISE Library and Information Science Research Grant for 2011 in the amount of $14,408 for his project, "Modalities, Motivations, and Materials – Investigating Traditional and Social Online Q&A Services.” OCLC is a not for profit computer service and research organization whose systems help libraries locate, acquire, catalog, and lend library materials. ALISE is the Association for Library and Information Science Education.
-- Claire R. McInerney Associate Professor, Department Chair Library and Information Science Dept. School of Communication and Information Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington St., #330 New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA V +1 732-932-7500 xt. 8218 F +1 732-932-6916 clairemc "at" rutgers.edu