National Centre for Text Mining NaCTeM http:www'nactem'ac'uk

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National Centre for Text MiningNaCTeM
(http//www.nactem.ac.uk)

• Consortium
• UMIST
• Victoria University of Manchester
• University of Liverpool
• University of Salford
• Manchester Computing
• Self-funded International Partners
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of Geneva
• University of Tokyo
• San Diego Supercomputing Center

• Project Outputs
• Proof-of-concept service provision
• Training and user support
• Industrial links
• Suite of text mining tools supporting
• Infrastructure for text mining
• Information retrieval and harvesting
• Terminology management and information extraction
• Data mining
• Data grid technologies
• Visualisation capabilities, knowledge
  representation, and
• integration into GRID-enabled applications
• Promoting text mining research

• Project Benefits
• Tools and services deployable in teaching and
  learning
• Students can seek facts and associations, not
  texts to
• read
• Support for problem-based learning through
  fact-finding
• and gaining of insights
• Aid for assimilating domain concepts and
  terminology
• Aid for hypothesis formulation and 'what if'
  questioning
• Aid to encourage engagement with body of
  knowledge
• Rapid composition of examples and facts to
  support CAL
• Exploration of links between student's
  experimental data
• and results reported and discussed in
  literature
• Semi-automatic enhancement and validation of
• currently manually curated scientific databases

• Project Outcomes
• Initial focus on bio-science domains with planned
  
  
  
  
  
• expansion of services to science, engineering,
  
• business, and humanities
• Planned evolution of steering committee
• Rolling requirements gathering as domain shifts
• User involvement in providing annotated corpora
  for
• evaluation and machine learning
• Move to partial self-sustaining status through
  service
• outreach and technology transfer to industry
• User advisory group and industry club
• Strong links with Digital Curation Centre
• Added value for existing JISC text data services

CONTACTS Sophia Ananiadou (S.Ananiadou_at_salford.ac
.uk) Julia Chruszcz (julia.chruszcz_at_man.ac.uk)
John Keane (jak_at_co.umist.ac.uk)

John McNaught (j.mcnaught_at_co.umist.ac.uk)
Paul Watry (P.B.Watry_at_liverpool.ac.uk)