TREADS

Text Reading and Summarization System

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About the Project

TREADS is a current research effort underway at Eastern Michigan University. The goal is to provide a system that can help those with reading disabilites have better access to text.

Partial support for this project has been provided by Dell Computer.

The Authors

Nik Estep	Nik is an undergraduate student from Columbus, OH. He is studying in the Computer Science Education program at Eastern Michigan University. TREADS is Nik's Undergraduate Research Fellowship work under the direction of Dr. Sverdlik. With any luck, he'll graduate after the Fall 2011 semester.
Michael Jahn	Mike graduated from the Computer Science program at Eastern in the Winter of 2008. He contributed to the user interface component of TREADS as part of his senior project. Mike is now employed as a Systems Engineer for an electronic content management company in Michigan. Mike also enjoys playing Ultimate frisbee, guitar, and skiing.
Karen Schulte	Karen teaches in the Department of Special Education at Eastern Michigan University. Her research interests include reading instruction for students with learning disabilities, overrepresentation of minority students in special education and understanding the underlying processing issues related to learning disabilities. In her spare time, Karen enjoys reading, cooking, gardening and playing the piano.
Erik Schweller	Erik was a computer science graduate student. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Idaho, also in computer science. When not programming, Erik takes photos and spends time with his wonderful wife. TREADS was Erik's master's thesis project under the direction of Dr. Sverdlik. He graduated after the Fall 2008 semester at EMU.
William Sverdlik, Ph.D.	Bill received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Wayne State University and has been teaching at Eastern Michigan University since 1999. His research interests include information retrieval, data mining , autonomous agents, artificial intelligence and robotics. In his spare time, Bill enjoys birdwatching and playing the cello.