Shannon Bradshaw

Assistant Professor

Management Sciences
Pappajohn Business Bldg
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242- 1994

E-mail: sbradsha@drew.edu

Website/CV

users.drew.edu/sbradsha

Academic History

PhD in Computer Science, Northwestern University, 2002
MS in Computer Science, University of Chicago, 1998
BS in Computer Science, Olivet Nazarene University, 1994

Expertise

Information Retrieval, Human Information Interaction, and Web Mining. I study information gathering in research and educational contexts. I also develop technologies that capture how people have consumed, organized, and appraised information. My primary objective in this work is to use the information gathering efforts of a few to make the same material easier for later consumers to find and absorb.

Selected Publications

Automatic Highlighting of Bioscience Literature (with Marc Light and Hudong Wang), Presented at BioLink., 2005.
Getting Biologists to (Willingly) Do the Work of a Thousand Annotators (with Marc Light), The AAAI Spring Symposium on Knowledge Collection from Volunteer Contributors, 2005.
Using Web Frequency Within Multimedia Exhibits (with Ayman Shama, Sara Owsley, Kristian Hammond), Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Conference, 2004.
Network Arts: Exposing Cultural Reality (with Ayman Shamma, Sara Owsley, Kristian Hammond, Jay Budzik), In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference (NOMINATED FOR BEST ALTERNATIVE TRACKS PAPER), 2004.
Reference Directed Indexing: Redeeming Relevance for Subject Search in Citation Indexes, Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 2003.
Search Engine-Crawler Symbiosis: Adapting to Community Interests (with Gautam Pant, Filippo Menczer), Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 2003.
Reference Directed Indexing: Indexing Scientific Literature in the Context of its Use, Ph.D. Dissertation. Northwestern University (Tech Report NWU-CS-02-7), 2002.
Clustering for Opportunistic Communication (with Jay Budzik, Xiaobin Fu, and Kristian Hammond), In Proceedings of the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference, 2002.
Automatically Indexing Documents: Content vs. Reference (with Kristian Hammond), In Proceedings of the Sixth International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2002.
Supporting Online Resource Discovery in the Context of Ongoing Tasks with Proactive Assistants (with Jay Budzik, Xiaobin Fu, Kristian Hammond), International Journal of Human-Computer Studies – Special Issue on Awareness and the WWW, Vol. 56(1), 2002, 47-74.
Using Citations to Facilitate Precise Indexing and Automatic Index Creation in Collections of Research Papers (with Kristian Hammond), Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 14(1), 2001, 29-35.
Guiding People to Information: Providing an Interface to a Digital Library Using Reference as a Basis for Indexing (with Andrei Scheinkman and Kristian Hammond), In Proceedings of the Fifth International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (NOMINATED FOR BEST PAPER), 2000.
Jabberwocky: You don't have to be a rocket scientist to change slides for a hydrogen combustion lecture (with David Franklin and Kristian Hammond), In Proceedings of the Fifth International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2000.
CBR Textuality (with David Wilson), Expert Update, Vol. 3(1), 1999, 28-37.

Work in Progress

Information Interaction in the Biological Sciences: An Analysis of Search Engine Usage and Article Annotation (with Dylan Scott and Marc Light).
Combining Better Measures of Precision and Significance in Retrieval of Scientific Literature Through the Use of Citation Sentences.
Dominion Parsing: A Fast and Precise Means of Relation Extraction in Bioscience Literature. (with Marc Light and Robert Arens).
Beedance: An information and knowledge management system for individuals and communities (with Matthew Smalley, Brian Almquist, and Marc Light).

Prior Positions

Chief Technology Officer, Dizpersion, Inc., 2002
Senior Software Engineer, System Architect, GartonWorks, Inc., 1999-2001
Research Assistant, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 1994-1996

Professional Affiliations

Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1998
Member, ACM Special Interest Group on Human Computer Interaction, 2000
Member, ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, 2003

Review and Editorial Work

Referee, Decision Support Systems, 2005
Referee, Communications of the ACM
Referee, BioLink 2005
Referee, Electronic Commerce Research Journal, 2003
Referee, Intl. Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2004
Referee, SIGIR Workshop on IR for Question Answering, 2004
Referee, SIGIR Workshop on Bioinformatics, 2004
Referee, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2004

Presentations

Knowledge Management and Text Mining for Bioscience Literature (Invited Talk), NSF Funded Workshop, Frontiers in Genomics: Insights into Protist Evolutionary Biology, 05/21/2004

Committees

Steering Committee on ITS Knowledge Management Strategies, 2005
Conference Committee, Ninth International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2004-2005
Conference Committee, Seventh International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2003
Working Committee on Management Information Sciences Curriculum, Department of Management Sciences, 2002-2003

Grant Review Panels

Iowa Informatics Initiative, 2003-2003

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