Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Text Analysis, Computational Linguistics

Examining the process of transforming unstructured text into structured data for use

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Assessing the Impact of Media Polarization on Public Health Emergencies

Time frame
2020-Present
Investigator
Jodi Schneider
Total funding to date
$10,000.00
Funding agency
Cline Center for Advanced Social Research

Media plays a big role in how citizens evaluate public health emergencies. This project seeks to understand how public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the opioid crisis are reported. In order to assess the polarization and politicization of U.S. news coverage, we are comparing news by political leaning (left, center, right) as segmented by AllSides media bias ratings. We…

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Augmenting Health Self-Regulation across the Cancer Survivorship Continuum by Digital Phenotyping

Time frame
2022-Present
Investigator
Jessie Chin
Total funding to date
$30,000.00
Funding agency
Campus Research Board

Breast cancer (BC) is a chronic illness. BC survivors often deal with the lifelong needs of self-management, such as controlling the symptoms, taking diet or nutrition plans, or adopting a physical activity program across their cancer survivorship continuum. Our team is eager to develop a novel technique to predict the intentions of lifestyle behavior by tracking ones' information behavior and…

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Automated Indexing for Publication Types and Study Design

Time frame
2023-2026
Investigators
Neil Smalheiser, Jodi Schneider, Halil Kilicoglu
Total funding to date
$947,925.00
Funding agency
National Institutes of Health

This project aims improve upon a tool clinicians, researchers, and systematic reviewers use to retrieve biomedical articles from bibliographic databases. Associate Professors Halil Kilicoglu and Jodi Schneider will work with Affiliate Professor Neil Smalheiser, professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois Chicago, on the project, which has received funding from the National Institutes…

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Computational Methods, Resources, and Tools to Assess Transparency and Rigor of Randomized Clinical Trials

Time frame
2022-2025
Investigator
Halil Kilicoglu
Total funding to date
$1,328,502.00
Funding agency
National Institutes of Health

Randomized clinical trials are valuable in determining the effectiveness of health treatments. But problems with design, execution or reporting of the trial process can lead to unreliable findings, excessive costs, and, potentially, harm for patients. Associate Professor Halil Kilicoglu is leading a  team of computer/information scientists and clinical research methodologists in…

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Development of a Chatbot for Delivering Long-Term Motivational Interviewing for Improving Exercise Adherence in Hemodialysis Patients

Time frame
2022-Present
Investigator
Jessie Chin
Total funding to date
$75,000.00
Funding agency
Jump ARCHES

There are approximately 600,000 individuals in the U.S. with kidney failure undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (HD) therapy. HD patients have several co-morbidities, including muscle wasting, cardiovascular disease, and bone disorders, with very high medical costs, averaging ~ $93,000/patient/year. Lifestyle interventions such as exercise and nutritional modification are often prescribed to…

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Natural Language Processing to Assess and Improve Citation Integrity in Biomedical Publications

Time frame
2022-Present
Investigators
Halil Kilicoglu, Jodi Schneider
Total funding to date
$300,000.00
Funding agency
Office of Research Integrity, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This project will assist researchers and journals in evaluating citation behavior in biomedical publications. While citations play a fundamental role in the diffusion of scientific knowledge and assessment of research on a topic, they are often inaccurate (e.g., citation of nonexistent findings, inappropriate interpretation). This inaccuracy undermines the integrity of scientific literature…

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Towards Reliable and Optimized Data-driven Cyber-Physical Systems using Human-centric Sensing

Time frame
2021-2024
Investigator
Dong Wang
Total funding to date
$543,087.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

Full title: CAREER: Towards Reliable and Optimized Data-driven Cyber-Physical Systems using Human-centric Sensing

Participatory science has opened opportunities for many to participate in data collection for science experiments about the environment, local transportation, disaster response, and public safety. The nature of the collection by non-scientists on a large scale carries…

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