BOOTStrep
Bootstrapping Of Ontologies and Terminologies STrategic REsearch Project (BOOTStrep) is a project funded under the EC's Sixth Framework Programme as a Specific Targeted Research Project.
- Duration: 1/4/2006 - 31/3/2009
- Overall project budget: €4.2M
- Value of funding to University of Manchester: €755K
Aims
- to build two major reusable, wide-coverage lexical and conceptual repositories for the biology domain, i.e. a bio-lexicon and a bio-ontology using text mining techniques
- to harmonise and augment existing bio-terminologies and bio-ontologies
- to allow multilingual querying of scientific knowledge and databases
Partners
- Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena (Germany)
- European Molecular Biology Institute/European Bioinformatics Institute (UK)
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche/Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (Italy)
- University of Manchester (UK)
- Université de Rennes (France)
- Institute for Infocomm Research (Singapore)
- Universitätsklinikum Freiburg (Germany)
Contacts
- Sophia Ananiadou (Principal Investigator)
- John McNaught (Co-investigator)
Featured News
- CFP: First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4HEALTH) - deadline 15/03/2024
- Postdoctoral research position in Athens, Greece. Application deadline: 18th March 2024
- Four-year funded PhD in collaboration with A*STAR, Singapore. Deadline 20 March 2024
- PhD opportunity in collaboration with Athens Univ. of Economics and Business. Deadline 31 Mar 2024
- iCASE EPSRC funded PhD- multimodal NLP - UoM & BAE - Application deadline 30th March 2024
- Invited talk at Annual Meeting of the Danish Society of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- CFP: BIONLP 2024 and Shared Tasks @ ACL 2024
- Advances in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Conference 2024
- New review article on emotion detection for misinformation
Other News & Events
- BioNLP 2024 accepted as workshop at ACL 2024
- Junichi Tsujii awarded Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon
- Chinese Government AwardAward for PhD student Tianlin Zhang
- Keynote talk at EMBL-EBI industry club Machine Learning for Text Mining
- Prof. Ananiadou appointed as Senior Area Chair for ACL 2023 and IJCNLP-AACL 2023