Miraida Morales

Greater New York City Area United States

Ph.D. Candidate in Information Science at Rutgers University - Health Literacy & Consumer Health Information Practices

Education

I am a Ph.D. candidate & Spectrum Fellow at Rutgers School of Communication and Information focusing on the evaluation of health information. More specifically, I focus on the intersection between the characteristics of text (within the domain of health) and the characteristics of users, particularly adults with low literacy skills or English language learners, as they engage in the specific task of evaluating consumer health information. Specialties: Multilingual Information Access Health Information Behavior Spanish language translation Corpus Linguistics and NLP methods Classification & Taxonomy Development Previously, I was Classification Manager (Taxonomist) at 1stdibs.com. I...