Information Sciences Associate Professor Dr. Peiling Wang is among three researchers nationwide to win an OCLC/ALISE Library and Information Science Research Grant Program award.
Each grant winner was awarded $15,000 to “foster high-quality research in schools of library and information science,” according to a press release from the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC).
Dr. Wang and others were presented their awards at a reception during the
Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual
Conference in Boston on January 13.
Dr. Peiling Wang is an associate professor at the University of Tennessee
School of Information Sciences. Her project, “A Dual Approach to Web Query
Mining: Towards Conceptual Representations of Information Needs,”
combines quantitative and qualitative techniques to mine (collect) users
online search queries in order to generate concept maps of user’s
information needs. Dr. Wang expects her research to help form a basis for
redesigning user-systems so that the architecture behind Web search engines
can be designed to better anticipate user searching needs.
OCLC, the Online Computer Library Center, is a nonprofit organization
that provides computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing,
eContent and preservation services to 52,000 libraries in 95 countries and
territories. The Association for Library and Information Science Education
is a nonprofit organization located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, whose mission
is to promote excellence in research, teaching and service for library and
information science education.
