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Semantic Computing and Technologies

Studying the structure, design, and manipulation of computer content and technologies (e.g., AI, natural language, software engineering) to better satisfy the needs and intentions of users and to create a more meaningful user experience

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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…

newspaper words

CAREER: Using Network Analysis to Assess Confidence in Research Synthesis

Time frame
2021-2026
Investigator
Jodi Schneider
Total funding to date
$599,963.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

Policy in areas such as conservation, energy, healthcare, and sustainable development is informed by a variety of factors, including the best available science. Determining the best available science requires synthesizing multiple scientific results to gauge both the level of scientific consensus and the reliability of the research. However, on some policy-relevant topics, syntheses continue…

network of dots

COMBINI (connecting Complementary Medicine and Biological kNowledge to support Integrative Health)

Time frame
2024-2029
Investigator
Halil Kilicoglu
Total funding to date
$3,261,972.00
Funding agency
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health

COMBINI (connecting Complementary Medicine and Biological kNowledge to support Integrative Health) is a collaboration between the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, the University of Minnesota, and Mayo Clinic in Florida. Illinois serves as the primary site.

The goal of the project is to develop informatics resources and scientific…

health medical project

Identifying Potential Bias in Science Using Citation Network Structures

Time frame
2020-2022
Investigator
Jodi Schneider
Total funding to date
$29,960.00
Funding agency
Campus Research Board

Biased citation benefits authors in the short-term by bolstering grants and papers, making them more easily accepted. However, it can have severe negative consequences for scientific inquiry. The need for a bias detection tool is evident from previous studies on citation bias, but existing work lacks crucial elements needed to scale the underlying approaches. This project will test the…

abstract science concept

Improving results and conclusions about harms in systematic reviews of drugs

Time frame
2024-2029
Investigator
Halil Kilicoglu
Total funding to date
$1,918,852.00
Funding agency
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This project is a collaboration with University of North Carolina (main site) and University of Colorado. Halil Kilicoglu serves as a co-PI and the lead at the University of Illinois. 

Systematic reviews are used to develop clinical guidelines, to set research priorities, and to help patients and clinicians make healthcare decisions. Systematic reviews of drugs should identify harms…

assortment of pills

Merging Science and Cyberinfrastructure Pathways: The Whole Tale

Time frame
2016-2022
Investigators
Bertram Ludäscher, Matthew Turk
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

Full title: CC*DNI DIBBS: Merging Science and Cyberinfrastructure Pathways: The Whole Tale

Scholarly publications tend to be disconnected from the underlying data and code used to produce the published results, despite an increasing recognition of the need to share all aspects of the research process. As data has become more open and transportable, a second layer of research output…

Whole Tale

News Stories

New project to enhance understanding of complementary medicine approaches

Complementary medicine approaches, such as natural products, acupuncture, and meditation, are increasingly used by the public and accepted by the medical community. However, knowledge of the safety and effectiveness of these approaches, as well as their impact on human health, is limited in comparison to conventional medical approaches.

Halil Kilicoglu

Kilicoglu group wins first place at BioLaySumm competition

The highly technical language used in biomedical publications makes it difficult for nonexpert audiences to fully understand their content and draw insights. The BioLaySumm competition focuses on making biomedical research publications more accessible to lay audiences. This year, the winning team was a group from Associate Professor Halil Kilicoglu's research lab: PhD students Zhiwen (Jerome) You and Shufan Ming and Computer Science master's student Shruthan Radhakrishna. 

Halil Kilicoglu

Schneider awarded Linowes Fellowship

Assistant Professor Jodi Schneider has been named a 2020-2021 Linowes Fellow by the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research at the University of Illinois. The fellowship "provides exceptionally promising tenure-stream faculty with opportunities for innovation and discovery using the Cline Center'

Jodi Schneider

Diesner lab to present research at computational social science conference

Members of Associate Professor and PhD Program Director Jana Diesner's Social Computing Lab will present a tutorial, paper, and posters at the 6th Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), which will be held virtually from July 17-20. The conference brings together academic researchers, industry experts, open data activists, and government agency workers to explore challenges, methods, and research questions in the field of computational social science.