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BOOTStrep Project
Bootstrapping Of Ontologies and Terminologies STrategic REsearch Project (BOOTStrep) is a project funded under the EC's Sixth Framework Programme as a Specific Targeted Research Project.
- Duration: 1/4/06 -- 31/3/09
- Overall project budget: €4.2M
Value of funding to University of Manchester: €755KInvestigators
- Principal Investigator: Dr Sophia Ananiadou
- Co-investigator: Mr John McNaught
- to contribute to the improvement of resources such as ontologies and dictionaries, required for text mining in the biomedical domain
- to build two major reusable, wide-coverage lexical and conceptual repositories for the biology domain, i.e. a bio-lexicon and a bio-ontology using text mining techniques
- to harmonise and augment existing bio-terminologies and bio-ontologies
- to allow multilingual querying of scientific knowledge and databases
Partners
- Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena (Germany)
- European Molecular Biology Institute/European Bioinformatics Institute (UK)
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche/Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (Italy)
- University of Manchester (UK)
- Université de Rennes (France)
- Institute for Infocomm Research (Singapore)
- Universitätsklinikum Freiburg (Germany)

