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SUMMARY:Text mining for public health reviews (The Robot Analyst) - Sophia
  Ananiadou\, Professor of Computer Science\, University of Manchester
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CONTACT:Dr Tennie Videler
DESCRIPTION:The unstructured and ambiguous nature of language in public he
 alth literature is a barrier to the accessibility and discovery of informa
 tion. I will discuss the limitations of conventional keyword-based search\
 , which are not well suited for the development of sensitive search strate
 gies. Semantic search functionalities (e.g.\, faceted search\, automatic q
 uery expansion\, queries as natural language questions) offered by semanti
 c systems developed by the National Centre for Text Mining will be present
 ed. Then methods which reduce the burden of semi-automatic citation screen
 ing will be presented within the context of a novel system\, the RobotAnal
 yst\, developed for Public Health England.\n\nCV Sophia Ananiadou is Profe
 ssor of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science\, University of
  Manchester and director of the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM). 
 Her main areas of research are semantic text mining and semantic search te
 chniques for applications in domains such as medicine\, systems biology\, 
 public health\, chemistry\, biodiversity and history of medicine. She is a
 lso involved in developing large-scale terminological resources (BioLexico
 n) and interoperable text mining platforms (Argo). Her current and recent 
 projects include semantic search for Europe PubMedCentral\, supporting evi
 dence-based systematic reviews in collaboration with NICE \, supporting th
 e development of biomarker tests in the Manchester Molecular Pathology Inn
 ovation Centre (MMPathIC)\, mining time sensitive information from histori
 cal medical documents and extracting complex claims for the development of
  networks\, hypothesis generation and experimental testing in Cancer Biolo
 gy (Big Mechanism).\n\nThis talk is part of the PublicHealth@Cambridge ser
 ies.
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Herchel Smith Building\, Forvie Site\, Robinson Wa
 y\, Cambridge CB2 0SR
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