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Last updated: June 30, 2008

Tehseen Sabir, CIS.

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Ms. Tehseen Sabir received her B.S degree in Management from Government College of Pakistan in May 1989. She received her second B.S degree in Computer Information Science from the University Of Maryland University College in December 1999. She joined the Communications Engineering Branch of the Lister Hill National Center For Biomedical Communications at the National Library of Medicine in May 1998.

Ms. Sabir is a Senior Software Developer at the National Library of Medicine. Her work is involved in performing design, coding, testing and implementation for MARS (Medical Article Record Systems), in-house reseach and development software projects using MS Visual C++, MS Visual Basic, ADO, MSXML and SQL. She assists in testing several MARS modules for better performance. She has an extensive knowlege of Speech Recognition software products from Dragon Systems Inc. called Dragon Naturally Speaking (Continuos Speech) and Dragon Dictate (Discrete Speech) for Program Control. Ms. Sabir is flexible, hardworking and possesses strong problem-solving abilities.

Current Projects

MARS II Production: The CEB has developed an automated system to produce bibliographic records for MEDLINE, NLM's premier database used by clinicians and researchers worldwide. This system called MARS (for Medical Article Record System) involves scanning and optical character recognition OCR to convert the abstracts that appear in journal articles. The system employs document image analysis, understanding techniques to automatically construct the remaining key fields (e.g., article title, authors, affiliations, etc) from the OCR text. Using MFC Visual C++, ADO and MSXML technology, Tehseen Sabir has developed and introduced a daemon module called “Seek Affiliation” into MARS system, which reduces the operator time needed to verify the affiliation field, which tends to include a disproportionate number of OCR errors. She currently maintains this module by troubleshooting any problems encountered by the MARS operators in production system.

Ms. Sabir is also responsible for maintaining two other daemon modules for Mars II production system called Confidence Editing & Pattern Match. These are console applications developed in C language and contributes to the overall speed and accuracy of the Mars II system. She is responsible for troubleshooting any problems that incur in production system for these software programs.

MARS II Testing Automation: At CEB, we are currently working on automating the manual testing process to improve the performance and overall testing time involved for MARS/WebMARS modules in production using Mercury’s Quick Test Professional testing software. Tehseen Sabir, is responsible for designing and developing these scripts, its implementation in the development system, analyzing the end result and resolve any problems that incur during its execution.

WebMARS Spin-Off: The CEB has developed an automated system, called Web Based Medical Article Record System (WebMARS), to produce bibliographic records for its MEDLINE database from full text versions of HTML (PDF) format online journal articles. The WebMARS employs document image analysis and understanding techniques, and DOM technology to complement existing MARS. Using MS Visual Basic 6.0 and MSXML parsing technology, Tehseen Sabir has developed a testing program called “XMLCompare” to analyze results produced by the WebMARS modules. She occasionally assists in testing the WebMARS modules using Publisher Data Review System (PDR).