Dr Sophia Ananiadou

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: €755K

  Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Dr Sophia Ananiadou
  • Co-investigator: Mr John McNaught
  Aims:

• 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)