Text Mining in the Life Sciences
October 5th, 2004
Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Introduction
The need for the analysis of large collections of text in the life sciences is growing from year to year. To oversee the content of textual documents in one’s own organization and to keep track of activities of competitors and public research organizations is a major task in modern IT infrastructures. To address this task the Fraunhofer-Institute SCAI and TEMIS SA decided to enter in a series of yearly workshops about text mining strategies in biomedical and pharmaceutical research. The symposium 2004 follows the very successful 1st event in October 2003 with about 70 participants. The aim of the symposium is to bring together scientists with high international reputation and representatives of major companies working in life sciences to discuss current topics of text mining in the pleasant ambiance of Schloss Birlinghoven. The symposium 2004 presents solutions for the life sciences with a particular focus on text mining in the chemical as well as in the plant science domain.
Organization
TEMIS SASpeaker
Dr. Georg Rosenfeld
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Reception and Welcome Address
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Sophia Ananiadou
UK National Centre for Text Mining
Challenges in Biomedical Terminology
Professor Dr. Udo Hahn
Jena University Language and Information Engineering (JULIE) Lab
Infrastructure Requirements for Text Mining in the Life Sciences
Dr. Eric Ferrandis
IPSEN France
Text Mining Application in Pharma Research
Dr. Günther Kurapkat
TEMIS Germany
A General Architechture for Text Mining in Life Sciences
Dr. Juliane Fluck
Fraunhofer SCAI
Text Mining Strategies for the Annotation of a Plant Ontology
Dr. Mathias Göschl
LION bioscience AG
The Application of Text Mining to Integrated Solutions in the Life Sciences
Helmut Grotz
MDL Informationssysteme GmbH
Text Mining in Chemistry – Extraction of Chemical Compounds and ther Reactions
Dr. Martin Hofmann
Fraunhofer SCAI
Concepts for the Extraction of Relevant Chemical Information from the Literature