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Core Staff

Name & Position	Contact
Prof. Sophia Ananiadou Director	Sophia.Ananiadou at manchester.ac.uk +44 (0)161 306 3092
Prof. Jun'ichi Tsujii Scientific Director	tsujii at is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp +44 161 306 5847
Mr. John McNaught Deputy Director	jock.mcnaught at manchester.ac.uk +44 161 306 3098
Mr. William Black Project Manager	William.Black at manchester.ac.uk +44 (0) 161 306 3096

Research Staff

Name & Research Interests	Contact
Dr. BalaKrishna Kolluru Data Mining, Pattern Classification	balakrishna.kolluru at manchester.ac.uk +44 (0) 161 306 5847
Dr. Ioannis Korkontzelos Multiword expressions, Named Entity Recognition, Word Sense Disambiguation	ioannis.korkontzelos at manchester.ac.uk +44 (0) 161 306 3090
Dr. Makoto Miwa Relation/Event Extraction, Machine Learning	makoto.miwa at manchester.ac.uk +44 (0) 161 306 3091
Dr. Sampo Pyysalo Information Extraction, Machine Learning, Semantic Representation, Automatic Corpus Annotation Support
Dr. Rafal Rak Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Named Entity Relationship Extraction	rafal.rak at manchester.ac.uk +44 (0) 161 306 3090
Paul Thompson Corpus Annotation, Information Extraction	paul.thompson at manchester.ac.uk +44 (0)161 306 3091

Software Engineers and System Administrators

Name	Contact
Jacob Carter Software Engineer	jacob.carter at manchester.ac.uk +44 (0) 161 306 3093
Dr. Andrew Rowley Senior Software Engineer	andrew.rowley at manchester.ac.uk +44 (0) 161 306 3093

Visiting Researchers

Name & Research Interests	Contact
Chang-Hoo Jeong Information Retrieval, Relation Extraction	chjeong at kisti.re.kr +44 (0) 161 306 3091

PhD Students

Name & Research Details	Contact
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)	batistar at cs.man.ac.uk
Mr. Georgios Kontonatsios Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Research Topic: Creating Text Mining workflows using interoperable platforms Funding Source: EPSRC EU Doctoral Training Award	kontonag at cs.man.ac.uk
Mr. Claudiu Mihaila Supervisor: Professor Sophia Ananiadou Funding Source:Kilburn Award	mihailac at cs.man.ac.uk
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
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

Past Visiting Researchers

Prof. Junichi Fukumoto	Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Dr. Kalliopi Zervanou	University of Tilburg, Netherlands

Associated Members

Yoshinobu Kano	University of Tokyo
Naoaki Okazaki	University of Tokyo
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka	Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)