Core Staff
| Name & Position | Contact | |
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| Prof.
Sophia Ananiadou Director |
Sophia.Ananiadou at manchester.ac.uk +44 (0)161 306 3092 |
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Prof. Jun'ichi Tsujii |
tsujii at is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp +44 161 306 5847 |
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| Mr.
John McNaught Deputy Director |
jock.mcnaught at manchester.ac.uk +44 161 306 3098 |
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| Mr. William Black Project Manager |
William.Black at manchester.ac.uk +44 (0) 161 306 3096 |
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Research Staff
| Name & Research Interests | Contact | |
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| Dr. BalaKrishna Kolluru Data Mining, Pattern Classification |
balakrishna.kolluru at manchester.ac.uk +44 (0) 161 306 3091 |
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| Dr. Tingting Mu Machine Learning |
tingting.mu at manchester.ac.uk +44 (0)161 306 3091 |
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| Dr Chikashi Nobata Named Entity Recognition, Machine Learning |
Chikashi.Nobata at manchester.ac.uk +44 161 306 3091 |
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| Dr. Rafal Rak Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Named Entity Relationship Extraction |
rafal.rak at manchester.ac.uk +44 (0) 161 306 3090 |
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| Dr. Angelo Restificar Machine Learning, Preference Modelling, Decision Theory, Natural Language Processing |
angelo.restificar at manchester.ac.uk +44 (0) 161 306 3091 |
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| Dr. C.J. Rupp Natural Language Processing, eScience, Computational Semantics, Grammar Engineering |
c.j.rupp at cs.man.ac.uk +44 (0) 161 306 3091 |
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| Paul Thompson Corpus Annotation, Information Extraction |
paul.thompson at manchester.ac.uk +44 (0)161 306 3091 |
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| Dr. Xinglong Wang Named Entity Normalisation and Disambiguation, Word Sense Disambiguation, Cross-lingual Natural Language Processing |
xinglong.wang at manchester.ac.uk +44 (0) 161 306 3094 |
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Software Engineers and System Administrators
| Name | Contact | |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Zhongming Cai Software Engineer |
zhongming.cai at manchester.ac.uk +44 (0) 161 306 3090 |
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| Matthew Machin Software Engineer |
matthew.machin at manchester.ac.uk +44 (0) 161 306 3090 |
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PhD Students
| Name & Research Details | Contact | |
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| Ms. Riza Theresa B. Batista-Navarro Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Research Topic: Recognition of Chemical and Microorganism Names in Natural Product Literature Funding Source: Engineering Research and Development for Technology Program, Department of Science and Technology (Philippines) |
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| Mr. Raheel Nawaz Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Co-supervisor: Professor Pedro Mendez Research Topic: Contradictions in Biomedical Literature Funding Source: BBSRC |
nawazr at cs.man.ac.uk |
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| Mr. Xinkai Wang Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Co-supervisor: Professor Jun-ichi Tsujii Research Topic:Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval on English Biomedical Literature with Chinese Query |
wangxa at cs.man.ac.uk |
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Associated Members
| Yoshinobu Kano | University of Tokyo |
| Naoaki Okazaki | University of Tokyo |
| Yutaka Sasaki | Toyota Technological Institute, Japan |
| Yoshimasa Tsuruoka | Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) |
Past Members
A selection of past members of NaCTeM:| Yoshimasa Tsuruoka | Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) |
| Naoaki Okazaki | University of Tokyo |
| Yukaka Sasaki | Toyota Technological Institute, Japan |
| Davy Weissenbacher | Toyota Technological Institute, Japan |
| Scott Piao | Lancaster University |
| Gina-Anne Levow | University of Chicago, Illinois |
Featured News
- Release of Taverna Plugin for U-Compare
- UKPMC User Experience Focus Group - 10th September - particpants invited
- Text mining enhances Educational Evidence Portal - new article and demo site
- Medal of honour awarded to Professor Tsujii
- Improved acronym disambiguation - release of updated software service and paper
- Launch of new features on UKPMC website
- New Biomedical Event Corpus (GREC) released







