Our Aims and Objectives
- Provision of full services and service exemplars for domains of interest to the UK academic community, leveraging the UK e-Science framework, grid technology, relevant standards and OMII-UK middleware. In the first phase NaCTeM concentrated on biology.
- Provide access to text mining tools and resources by
- Maintaining an inventory of best of breed software
- Linking to resources, e.g. annotated corpora, ontologies, terminologies, grammars
- Provide consultancy and advice
- Provide education and dissemination through online tutorials, white papers, updated news and events, seminars, training workshops, etc.
- Provide user oriented formative and summative adequacy evaluation of service provision, and developer oriented progress evaluation of text mining tool and service provision.
NaCTeM's tools and services offer benefits to a wide range of users eg. reduction in time and effort for finding and linking pertinent information from large scale textual resources and customised solutions in semantic data analysis You can find a fuller description of the aims and objectives of the Centre in our article in Ariadne Magazine.
S. Ananiadou (2007) The National Centre for Text Mining: a Vision for the Future, in Ariadne (53) , paper on line
Featured News
- Postdoctoral opportunity in Natural Language Processing
- BioNLP 2021 - First call for papers
- Outstanding paper designation for NaCTeM paper at Coling 2020
- New article in BMJ Open examining change over time of women’s health in clinical studies
- Prof. Ananiadou to chair Women in STEM Conference 2020
- CfP: Special issue on Semantic Resources and Text Mining
- Papers accepted at Coling 2020
- NaCTeM at the AI for Health Winter School 2021
- Keynote talk at SIMBig 2020
- New article describing neural nested event extraction model
- New article describing syntactically-informed word representations
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- Programme now available for BioNLP workshop on 9th July 2020
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- Talk at Digital Trust and Security Workshop Series