Dr. Ana Lučić is a Staff Research Scientist at the Illinois Applied Research Institute. Ana specializes in natural language processing, literature based discovery, data management and deriving new knowledge from old data. Before joining ARI, Ana worked as a Digital Scholarship Librarian at DePaul University and as a Data Manager and Analyst with the IKIDS research group at Beckman Institute (U. of Illinois).

Ana earned her PhD from the iSchool at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation developed a method for extracting comparison facets from a corpus of biomedical scholarly articles.

Her research focuses on the development of methods that can isolate domain-specific relations as well as particular structures from texts with the final goal of viewing and evaluating these relations and structures in aggregate. She has expertise working with diverse textual collections that include literary works, film reviews, as well as a collection of scholarly articles from plant science and biomedicine. Her 2016 dissertation at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is entitled "Automatically Identifying Facet Roles from Comparative Structures to Support Biomedical Text Summarization." Her research has appeared in such journals as Digital Scholarship in the Humanities and the Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Ana assists faculty, staff, and students at DePaul with the development of digital scholarship projects.

Dr. Lucic may be contacted through the Illinois Applied Research Institute at https://appliedresearch.illinois.edu/directory/profile/alucic2