British academics to benefit from world's first national text mining service.British academics to benefit from world's first national text mining service. The National Centre for Text Mining Introduction The National Centre for Text Mining ([1] (NaCTeM) is the world’s first publicly funded text mining (TM) centre. It was established to provide support, advice, and information on TM technologies and to disseminate information from the larger TM (NaCTeM) is a collaboration between the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Salford. Funding is provided by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC JISC Joint Information Systems Committee (UK) JISC Japan Industrial Standards Committee JISC Joint Industry Safety Committee ), the Biotechnology and Biological Research Council (BBSRC BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council ) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC EPSRC Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (UK) ). Search engines return thousands of documents, but the difficulty for the user is to find those which are most personally relevant. Most of these searches have little concept of the meaning of words that is gained from the context of a sentence. By using natural language processing Natural language processing Computer analysis and generation of natural language text. The goal is to enable natural languages, such as English, French, or Japanese, to serve either as the medium through which users interact with computer systems such as , text mining can discover this meaning and focus on specific needs of the user. Detailed abstracts can then be compared and contrasted using data mining to discover patterns and associations that the human eye is more likely to miss. This has proved to be particularly useful in the fields of drug discovery and predictive toxicology. Initially focusing on providing a service for the fields of biological and biomedical science Noun 1. biomedical science - the application of the principles of the natural sciences to medicine bioscience, life science - any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms , the Centre will also serve the broader needs of the academic community through the provision of text mining tools, advice and ongoing research. Strong contacts will be forged by the Centre with business and government sectors to achieve long term sustainability. Richard.barker@Manchester.uk |
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