Biography:
Sonya Shooshan is an Information Research
Specialist for the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications at
the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Sonya is a member of the
NLM Gateway development team. The NLM Gateway is a Web-based
system that lets users search simultaneously in multiple retrieval
systems at the NLM. It allows users of NLM services to initiate
searches from one Web interface, providing "one-stop
searching" for many of NLM's information resources or
databases. Previously, she worked on Internet Grateful Med, a
web-based search service that provided access to MEDLINE and fourteen
other NLM databases. Her duties include software testing, document creation and
revision, customer support, coordination with
other NLM program areas, and some programming.
Sonya also works with the Indexing Initiative (II) development team. She is
currently reviewing and updating many of the data tables in the Medical Text
Indexer (MTI), and has undertaken other specialized projects for the II team in
the past. She is a member of the team developing methods for the attachment of
subheadings to MeSH terms recommended by the MTI. For several years, Sonya has
co-authored an ambiguity study on the UMLS Metathesaurus; she is a member of the
Lister Hill NLP Content View (LNCV) team, a collaborative project interested in
reducing ambiguity in the Metathesaurus for NLP applications. She helped evaluate
MTI automatic indexing results for meeting abstracts.
Sonya has a BA in economics from Harvard
University and an MLS from the University of Maryland at College
Park. Sonya spent many years as a software analyst for a defense
contractor before entering the field of health sciences librarianship in
1995. Before arriving at NLM in 1997, she had varied
responsibilities including web site development, web programming, and
telephone reference.
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