Biography:
Susanne M. Humphrey is an information scientist and project leader in
NLM’s Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC),
where she performs research in the area of knowledge-based systems for
indexing and retrieval. Her current research project is Journal Descriptor
Indexing (JDI). The JDI system automatically indexes documents according
to a small set of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)descriptors used for
indexing journals according to discipline in the List of Journals indexed
for MEDLINE.
A JDI-based system, known as Semantic Type Indexing (STI) automatically indexes
documents by a set of broad subject categories in the
Unified Medical
Language System (UMLS) Semantic Network. Her collaboration with LHNCBC’s
Lexical Systems Group has resulted in the
Text Classification (TC) project,
which makes available for public use and distribution Java-based Web tools that
perform JDI and STI.
Previously, she developed MedIndEx (Medical Indexing Expert), a knowledge-based,
computer-assisted indexing system. Prior to performing research, she worked in
various phases of NLM's MEDLINE retrieval system since its inception (as MEDLARS),
including indexing, searching, database management, user training, and thesaurus
management (ten years in the Medical Subject Headings section).
Humphrey is author of numerous publications on her research and a textbook in the
field of information retrieval. She is a Fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, cited for her "research and professional
contributions in the area of information science, particularly in
knowledge-based expert systems, database indexing, and information retrieval". She
is active in the American Society for Information Science and Technology
(ASIST), including the primary founder of the SIG/CR (Classification Research) Workshop, held
as a pre-conference at the ASIST Annual Meeting; she was the primary editor
of the first volume of the workshop proceedings in Advances in Classification
Research. Her other affiliations include the Medical Library Association
(senior member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals),
Association for Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, and American Chemical Society.
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