Dr Sophia Ananiadou

Invited speaker

2006

• Invited speaker for ACL/HCS Net Advanced Program in Natural Language Processing University of Melbourne, Summer School, 10-14 July 2006
• University of Zurich, ifi colloquium 29 June 2006
• UKOLN, University of Bath, 27 June 2006
• University Paris 13, LIPN, Laboratoire d'Informatique, 21 June 2006
• Invited speaker, Xerox Research Centre Europe, Content Analysis, Parsing & Semantics Research Group, 16 June 2006
• InfoTechPharma, 13 March 2006, Pre-Conference Workshop, Text Mining in the Pharma Industry: Knowledge Extraction and Value Creation.

2005

• IBM, London, Business Intelligence and Text Mining solutions for Life Sciences, 28 April 2005
• e-Biology Initiative: Towards New Frontiers of Biology, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, 10-11/3/2005

2004

• Text mining workshop, Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI), Sankt Augustin , Germany October 2004.
• Japan Biological Information Research Centre (JBIRC), H-Invitational Disease Edition Jamboree, Tokyo , September 2004
• JST Tokyo, invited speaker, March 2004, Text Mining in Biology
• CNB/CSIC Madrid, international workshop on Critical Assessment of Information Extraction systems in Biology, BioCreative, March 2004, Granada , Spain . Co-organised by the Protein Design Group ( Spain ) and the MITRE Corporation. Ananiadou, S., 2004: Challenges of term extraction in biomedical texts [url]
• University of Wales , Swansea , Terminology, Computing and Translation, 26-27 March 2004.

2001-2002

• University of Tokyo , international workshop on natural language processing in Biology, 2002. Workshop on Natural language Processing and Ontology Building , University of Tokyo , February 2002
• University of Twente, international workshop on information extraction in Molecular Biology, 2001, Twente, Holland

Programme committee membership and service as referee in Journals

2006

• Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data, Workshop, IJCAI 2007
• New Frontiers in Biomedical Text Mining A Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing Session January 3-7, 2007 Grand Wailea Resort, Wailea, Maui, Hawaii
• ECML/PKDD Workshop on Data and Text Mining for Integrative Biology, Berlin, September 18-22 2006
• Reviewer for the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Sydney, Australia
• International Workshop Integrative Bioinformatics
  Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kindom.
• 14th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, ISMB 2006, Fortaleza, Brazil, August 6-10 2006
• Joint BioLink and Bio-Ontologies SIG Meeting, August 4-5, in association with ISMB 2006
• SMBM 2006, International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine, 9-12 April 2006, Co-Chair
• LREC 2006, International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Genoa, Italy
• International Workshop on Acquiring and Representing multilingual, specialised lexicons: the case of biomedicine
• HLT/NAACL, BioNLP 2006
• BMC Bioinformatics
• Bioinformatics
• International Journal on AI Tools
  

2005

• Bioinformatics
• BMC Bioinformatics
• Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB)
• Special Issue on Text Mining and Management in Biomedicine, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
• 1 st International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine, EU Network of Excellence on Semantic Mining & EBI
• 10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI2005, Volos , Greece , 2005
• ACL workshop / ISMB SIG on biomedical text data mining. Linking Biological Literature, Ontologies and Databases: Mining Biological Semantics
• Journal of Computers in Biology and Medicine. Special issue in Intelligent Technologies in Bioinformatics and Medicine.
• Briefings in Bioinformatics

2004

• COLING,, Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine and its Applications (NLPBA/BioNLP)
• COLING
• Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2004), Lisbon , Portugal
• Linking Biological Literature, Ontologies and Databases: Tools for Users, Workshop in conjunction with NAACL/ HLT 2004, Boston , USA
• Methodologies and Evaluation of Multiword Units in Real-world applications (MEMURA) Workshop in conjunction with LREC2004, Lisbon , Portugal .
• Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), Glasgow, UK .
• Reviewer for Special Issue of BMC Bioinformatics Journal on BioCreative (Critical Assessment of Text Mining tools in Biology)
• Reviewer for Bioinformatics Journal
• Reviewer for International Journal of Terminology
• Referee for Special issue of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal (AIM) on Summarization and Information Extraction from Medical Documents.

2003

• 1 st Balkan Conference on Informatics, Workshop on Balkan Languages Resources and Tools, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Greece , 2003.
• Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2000 and 2001, Hawaii
• 11 th International Conference on intelligent systems for molecular biology (ISMB) Brisbane , Australia , 2003

1997-2002

• International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) 2002, Spain
• Workshop on NLP in Biomedical Applications (NLPBA) 2002, Cyprus .
• Terminology and Artificial Intelligence (TIA) 2002, Strasbourg , France
• COLING (2002) Workshop on Computational Terminology , Taiwan
• 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing 2000, Greece
• Association for Computational Linguistics 31 st ACL (2000) Hong Kong . EMNLP/VLC (2000) Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in NLP and very large corpora, Hong Kong .
• Terminology and Artificial Intelligence (TIA) 2001 Nancy , France
• Human Computer Interaction Conference, (PC-HCI) 2001, Patras , Greece
• International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 1996), Copenhagen ;
• COLING (1998) Workshop on Computational Terminology, Montreal ;
• COLING (2000) Luxembourg ;
• Publisher’s referee for Bourigault, D., Jacquemin, C. & L’Homme, M-Cl. (eds) (2001) Recent Advances in Computational Terminology, John Benjamins, Amsterdam .
• International Symposium on Digital Libraries (ISDL) 1997, Tsukuba , Japan .
• Natural Language Pacific Rim Symposium (NLPRS) 1997, Thailand ; 1999, China ; 2001, Japan.
• European Cooperation on Terminology 1999, Paris

Organisation of Workshops and Tutorials

• Tutorial on Text Mining in Biomedicine EACL with Yoshimasa Tsuruoka
• Tutorial on Text Mining at MIE2005 30th August 2005, Geneva, Switzerland with Olivier Bodenreider
• Workshop on Computational Terminology, CompuTerm 2004, with Pierre Zweigenbaum, International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Coling 2004, Geneva, Switzerland (full programme)
• Co-organiser of thematic session Text Mining in Biomedicine, jointly with Jong Park (KAIST), International Joint Conference of Natural Language Processing 2004, IJCNLP, Hainan Island, China.
• Natural Language Processing techniques in Biomedicine, ACL 2003, with Prof. Tsujii, Association for Computational Linguistics Conference, Sapporo , Japan , July 2003
• Tutorial Methods for Automatic Term Recognition in Molecular Biology, at Pacific Symposium on Bioinformatics (PSB) 2001, Hawaii
• International Symposium on Molecular Biology (ISMB 2001, Copenhagen ) on Mining the Biomedical Literature with Dietrich Schuhmann, Alfonso Valencia, Lynette Hirschman, Junichi Tsujii
• Computational Terminology for Medical and Biological Applications, at the Natural Language Processing 2000 (NLP2000) Conference, Greece, with Diana Maynard.
• Machine Translation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), at the Machine Translation Summit VII, Singapore , 1999.
• Rule based vs. Empiricist Approaches in Natural Language Processing, sponsored by Interpreting Telephony Research Laboratories of Japan, 1992, Manchester

Prizes and Awards

• 2004 The Daiwa Adrian Prize for joint UK-Japan research collaboration. Jointly with Prof. Tsujii of Tokyo University.
• 1997, award from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Japan Trust. The Japan Trust is a scheme jointly sponsored by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) and the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications.

Invited Researcher

• 2006 Computer Science lab of the Paris 13 University (L.I.P.N.), associated to the CNRS. Invited Professor, June 2006.
• 1996 German National Research Centre for Information Technology Research (GMD), currently Fraunhofer, Bonn , Division Artificial Intelligence (FIT.AI), Cooperative Design Group, Invited Researcher.
• 1995 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT). Invited Research Fellow at the NTT Communication Science Laboratories, within the framework of NTT's Invited Professors and Researchers Programme.

Membership of international and national research committees

• Member of the British Computer Society (2004)
• Member of EPSRC Peer Review College (from January 2003)
• Vice-president of the European Association for Terminology (EAFT) 1997-1999