Title:   The Application of Information Extraction in Bio-informatics

Speaker: Professor Jun-ichi Tsujii

         Department of Information Science
         Faculty of Science
         University of Tokyo
         7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku Tokyo
         113-0033 Japan
         Tel +81-3-5841-4098
         Fax +81-3-5802-8872
         email: tsujii@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp

         Department of Language Engineering
         UMIST, PO Box 88
         Manchester, M60 1QD
         England
         Tel +44-161-200-3103

Summary: Demands for IE and text mining have been increasing rapidly in the 
         biological and medical sciences. The immediate target of most of the 
         on-going projects is to treat Medline abstracts. Compared with newspaper 
         articles, reports, etc., the abstracts in these fields have peculiar 
         characteristics, which make the IE task harder than those we have treated 
         so far. In particular, complex term formations, systematic metaphor, 
         numerous semantic classes and various types of co-ordinations and 
         parenthetical expressions pose challenging problems for existing NLP 
         techniques. In this tutorial, I will talk about our experience of IE in 
         these fields together with resource building attempts.

Course Outline: <TODO>

Bio:     Research Areas: Natural Langauge Processing, Machine Translation,
         Computational Linguistics