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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)

Project Website

http://text0.mib.man.ac.uk/projects/bootstrep/