VCU Natural Language Processing Lab news . research . people . publications . teaching . software . data . lab . contact people Faculty . Current students . Former students . High school students . DERI students . CAPSTONE students Faculty Dr. Bridget McInnes Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering My research has primarily been in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) with a particular interest in semantics, the process of analysing the meaning of text. Specific areas of interest include: word sense disambiguation biomedical text processing semantic similarity and relatedness nanoinformatics literature-based discovery Current Students Graduate Research Assistants: Sam Henry (Fall 2015) Amy Olex (Fall 2016) Undergraduate Research Assistants: Megan Charity (Summer 2016 - ) Clint Cuffy (Spring 2016 - ) DURI Students: Jasmine Norman (Spring 2017 - ) co-advised with Dr. Nastassja Lewinski DERI Students: Alex McQuilkin (2016-2017) (co-advised with Sam Henry) Project: Develping Association Measures for Biomedical Text Mining Henry Roberts (2016-2017) (co-advised with Dr. Nastassja Lewinski) Project: Developing a Nanoparticle Characteristic Entity Extractor Capstone Students: 2016-2017: Normalization of clinical records for cohort discovery Students: Payal Shah Jordan Tang Kyle Ellis Faculty Advisors: Dr. Bridget T. McInnes (Computer Science) Dr. Antonio Abbate (VCU Pauley Heart Center) Vertically Integrated Project students: (co-advised with Dr. Nastassja Lewinski) Edwin Lobo (Fall 2016 - ) Joshua Ramer (Fall 2016 - ) Tony Wang (Fall 2016 - ) Rashed Rashed (Fall 2016 - ) Former DERI Students Gabby Jones (2015-2016) (co-advised with Dr. Nastassja Lewinski) Project: Developing a Nanoparticle Characteristic Entity Extractor Former Capstone Students 2015-2016: Data Mining Nanotechnology Students: Clint Cuffy Tej Mehta Hengbin Li Faculty Advisors: Dr. Bridget T. McInnes (Computer Science) Dr. Nastassja A. Lewinski (Chemical & Life Science Engineering) Dr. Alberto Canto (Computer Science) 2014-2015: Visualization of NLP Extractions Students: Deepak Warraich Kevin Barbour David Vieth Advisors: Industry: Josh Powers, CTO, Securboration Faculty: Dr. Bridget T. McInnes Former Research Assistants Undergraduate Research Assistants: Gerard Briones (Spring 2016) Ellen Korcovelos (Summer 2015 - Spring 2016) Ryan Murphy (Summer 2015 - Spring 2016) Keith Herbert (Spring 2015 - Spring 2016) Former High School Students Summer 2016: Nick Jordan (Deep Run Highschool) Project: Topic Modeling in Clinical Trial Documents Code: Algorithm-LDA Presentation: Topic Modeling Andriy Mulyar (Deep Run Highschool) Project: Quantifying the Relatedness between biomedical terms Code: SemMed::Interface Presentation: SemMed-Interface Syndey Mabry (Deep Run Highschool) Project: Sarcasm Dectection in Twitter Code: Twitter-Sarcasm-Analysis Presentation: Sarcams Detection Robbie VanDerzee (Deep Run Highschool) Project: Identifying groups of related biomedical terms Code: UMLS-NanoSets Presentation: NanoSets Chelsea Greco Project: Abstract Extraction for Document Classification Presentation: Text Categorization Summer 2015: Hermitage Technical Center Students: Tyler Pickering Sydney Hogue Isaac Barron Project: Extractive Single Document Summarisation Deep Run Senior Capstone Projects: Megan Charity (2015-2016) Project: Developing a Conversational Chatbot (GRAM)