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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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