Sophia Ananiadou
Professor Sophia Ananiadou | |
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| Nationality | British, Greek |
| Alma mater | University of Athens |
| Awards | IBM Innovation Award (3 times) The Daiwa Adrian Prize for joint UK-Japan research collaboration Japanese Ministry of Education, Japan Trust, award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Natural language processing text mining |
| Institutions | University of Manchester |
| Website | www |
Sophia Ananiadou is a British computer scientist. She led the development of the first publicly-funded text mining group in the world, the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM). She currently works at University of Manchester as the director of NaCTeM and also as a professor in the School of Computer Science.[1]
She also works on Facta+, a searchable database which finds associations between biomedical concepts, based on data-mining from relevant scientific literature.[2]
Education
Ananiadou received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Athens, a DEA in Linguistics from Paris VII, Jussieu, France, a DEA in Literature from Paris IV, Sorbonne, France and a Ph.D in Computational linguistics from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). [1]
Career
Ananiadou was a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University from 1993 to 1999, and a senior lecturer at the School of Computing Science and Engineering, University of Salford from 2000 to 2005.[1]
Sophia Ananiadou has published extensively since 1986.[3]
Awards
Ananiadou has received the IBM UIMA innovation award 3 consecutive times and is also a Daiwa award winner. [1]
References
- ^ a b c d "Prof Sophia Ananiadou research profile - personal details". The University of Manchester. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
- ^ Hodson, Hal (24 August 2014). "Supercomputers make discoveries that scientists can't". New Scientist. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
- ^ Ananiadou, Sophia. "List of publications". University of Manchester.
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