Eileen Allen
Editorial Services
eejallen@gmail.com
680-877-8888
  • Over twenty years of experience in the information professions.
  • Broad range of work experience as: Indexer, Editor, Researcher, Author/Coauthor, Librarian, Research Administrator
  • Superior analytic and organizational skills
  • Quick learner of new subject areas and software
  • Excellent writing skills


Work History:
2014 – present—Eileen Allen Editorial Services
Sole proprietor of indexing and editing service, specializing in academic books, papers, and dissertations. Recent work has included books on music, women’s and gender studies, cultural studies, history, civil rights, film, education, political science, and the Middle East; and journal articles, book chapters, and dissertations in the disciplines of organizational science, civil and mechanical engineering, and library and information science.  Based on over twenty years of occasional indexing and editing experience, and on graduate classes in Indexing and Abstracting, and Thesaurus Construction. Current clients include individual authors, Indiana University Press, University of Arizona Press, University of Washington Press, University of Nebraska Press,  The Ohio State University Press, Syracuse University Press, Naval Institute Press, University of Utah Press, Princeton University Press, and Westchester Publishing Services.

2006 – 2017—Research Administrator, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
Work with faculty to prepare grant proposals for funding.  Manage and assist with all aspects of preparation, including preparing budgets, writing portions of the text, editing narratives, inspecting proposal sections for compliance and completeness, and coordinating with collaborators and campus offices.

1999 – 2006—Senior Analyst, Center for Natural Language Processing, Syracuse University
1994 – 1996—Senior Analyst/ Analyst, TextWise, LLC
Served as leading research analyst. Carried out research on a variety of funded projects using computational linguistics approaches to build software applications for government and private industry and to further knowledge in the information sciences. Managed funded projects, coauthored publications with faculty, assisted in the writing of proposals, wrote pseudo-code, and managed budgets.

1992 – 1996—Reference Librarian, SUNY Institute of Technology
Served as reference librarian with specialized knowledge in government documents and the school’s archive.

1990—Manager, Film News Index project, Syracuse University
Managed a course-based, graduate indexing project for a 40-year run of Film News.

1974 – 1977—Elementary General Music Teacher, Baldwinsville Central School District


Education:
MLS, Syracuse University, 1990; awarded the Graduate School Prize
BA in Elementary Education, SUNY Cortland, 1974

Presentations:
  • "Adding Sweet Harmonics through Indexing Music." Presentation at the American Society for Indexing Annual Conference, Cleveland, OH, April 26-28, 2018.

Publications:
Indexing and Thesaurus Construction
  • Allen, Eileen. "Creating Harmony: The Challenges of Indexing Books on Music." The Indexer 37, no. 1 (2019): 3–12.
  • Liddy, Elizabeth D., and Eileen E. Allen, eds. Film News Index: 1947–1981. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University, 1991 (ERIC Document ED339359).
  • Allen, Eileen E. Kellogg Adult Education Thesaurus, 2nd ed. Syracuse: Syracuse University Kellogg Project, 1991. (ERIC Document ED332024).
  • Allen, Eileen E. et al. Kellogg Adult Education Thesaurus (KAET), 1st ed. Syracuse: School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, 1990. 
Librarianship
  • Allen, Eileen E. “Searching Naturally.” Internet Reference Services Quarterly 3, no.2 (1998): 75–81. 
  • Allen, Eileen E. “Introduction: Proceedings of the Spring 1995 ENY/ACRL Conference, March 17, 1995, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.” Internet Reference Services Quarterly 1, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 7–9.
  •  Allen, Eileen E. “Active Learning and Teaching: Improving Post-Secondary Library Instruction.” In Library Instruction Revisited: Bibliographic Instruction Comes of Age, ed. Lynne M. Martin (New York: Haworth Press, 1995). Also published as The Reference Librarian 50/51. 
  • Allen, Eileen E. “Taking the Network Plunge: Remote Users and Electronic Networks.” LITA Newsletter 15 (Fall 1994): 15–17.
  •  Allen, Eileen E. “Telnet: Telephone the Network.” The Internet Homesteader 1 (August 1994): 13–14. (Reprinted in the Conference issue of The Internet Homesteader, October 1994). 

Natural Language Processing
  • Crowston, Kevin, Eileen E. Allen, and Robert Heckman. “Using Natural Language Processing Technology for Qualitative Data Analysis.” International Journal of Social Research Methodology 15, no. 6 (2011): 523–43. DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2011.625764
  • Keeling, J. W., A. M. Turner, E. E. Allen, S. A. Rowe, J. A. Merrill, E. D Liddy, and H. R. Turtle. “Development and Evaluation of a Prototype Search Engine to Meet Public Health Information Needs.” In Proceedings of the Annual AMIA Symposium (2011): 693–700. PMID: 22195125 
  • Crowston, Kevin, Xiaozhong Liu, and Eileen E. Allen. “Machine Learning and Rule-Based Automated Coding of Qualitative Data.” In Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 47, no. 1 (November/December 2010): 1–2. DOI: 10.1002/meet.14504701328
  • Li, Qing, Robert Heckman, Kevin Crowston, James Howison, Eileen Allen, and U. Yeliz Eseryel. “Decision Making Paths in Self-Organizing Technology-Mediated Distributed Teams.” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Paris, France, December 14–17, 2008. Paper 99. 
  • Heckman, Robert, Kevin Crowston, U. Yeliz Eseryel, James Howison, Eileen Allen, and Qing Li. “Emergent Decision-Making Practices in Technology-Supported Self-Organizing Distributed Teams.” Paper presented at the Twenty-Seventh International Conference on Information Systems, Milwaukee, WI. (2006): 649–60.
  • Turner, A. M., D. Petrochilos, D. E. Nelson, E. Allen, and E. D. Liddy. “Access and Use of the Internet for Health Information Seeking: A Survey of Local Public Health Professionals in the Northwest.” Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 15, no. 1 (January/February 2009): 67–69 DOI: 10.1097/01.PHH.0000342946.33456.d9 
  • Li, Qing, Robert Heckman, Eileen Allen, Kevin Crowston, U. Yeliz Eseryel, James Howison, and Andrea Wiggins. “Asynchronous Decision-Making in Distributed Teams.” Sprouts: Working Papers on Information Systems. 8, no. 9 (2008). http://sprouts.aisnet.org/8-9
  • McCracken, Nancy J., Anne R. Diekema, Grant Ingersoll, Sarah C. Harwell, Eileen E. Allen, Ozgur Yilmazel, and Elizabeth D. Liddy. “Modeling Reference Interviews as a Basis for Improving Automatic QA Systems.” In Proceedings of the Interactive Question Answering Workshop at HLT-NAACL. (2006): 17–24. 
  • Liddy, Elizabeth. D., Eileen E. Allen, Christina M. Finneran, Geri Gay, Helene Hembrooke, and Laura A. Granka. “MetaTest: Evaluation of Metadata from Generation to Use.” In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (2003): 398.
  • Liddy, Elizabeth D., Eileen Allen, Sarah Harwell, Susan Corieri, Ozgur Yilmazel, Necati E. Ozgencil, Anne Diekema, Nancy McCracken, Joanne Silverstein, and Stuart Sutton. “Automatic Metadata Generation & Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Tampere, Finland, August 11–15, 2002, 401–2. 
  • Paik, Woojin., Elizabeth D. Liddy, Eileen E. Allen, Eric Brown, Andrew Farris, Robert Irwin, Jennifer Liddy, and Ian Niles. “Applying Link Analysis on Automatically Extracted Information from KNOW-IT (KNOWledge Base Information Tools).” In Proceedings of the 1998 AAAI Fall Symposium on AI and Link Analysis, Orlando, Florida, October 23–25, 1998.
  • Liddy, Elizabeth D., Woojin Paik, Eileen E. Allen, Eric Brown, Andrew Farris, Robert Irwin, Jennifer Liddy, and Ian Niles. “Knowledge Base Information Tools (KNOW-IT).” In Proceedings of the Symposium on Advanced Information Processing and Analysis (AIPA98), 1998. 
  • Paik, Woojin, Jennifer Liddy, Eileen E. Allen, and Dai Liu. “Browsing, Question-Answering, and Information Retrieval in the CHronological information Extraction SyStem (CHESS).” In The Information Age: The Future is Now: Proceedings of the Dual-Use Technologies & Applications Conference, Syracuse, N.Y., May 13–15, 1997.
 
Member
             American Society for Indexing
             Editorial Freelancers Association
             Early Music America
             American Recorder Society

Hobbies and Interests
Playing the recorder, Gardening, Knitting, Cooking, Reading, Sewing, Winter, the Outdoors, Home improvement