Finding the Hidden Knowledge: Text mining for biology and medicine

February 21st and 22nd in Glasgow, Scotland

Overview

A two day workshop which aims to encourage collaboration between the text mining and the biomedical communities. The workshop will consist of invited talks, a panel on user experiences with text mining, a poster/demo session, and plenty of time for discussion and networking.

The invited speakers and panelists include:

• Sophia Ananiadou, National Center for Text Mining, University of Manchester
• Doug Armstrong, Edinburgh Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Edinburgh
• Wendy Bickmore, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
• Ted Briscoe, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
• Elizabeth Fairley, ITI Life Sciences
• William Hayes, Biogen Idec
• Lawrence Hunter, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
• Peter Jackson, Thomson Corporation
• Mark Liberman, Linguistic Data Consortium / University of Pennsylvania
• Tim Miller, Thomson Scientific
• John Pestian, Cincinnati Children's Hospital

Sponsors

Scottish Bioinformatics Forum


ITI Life Sciences

Additional Support

Human Communication Research Centre,
University of Edinburgh


Bioinformatics Research Centre ,
University of Glasgow