[SB] NLP/text mining guest lecture, Wed June 28, 10:15, IDI-lunchroom

[Amund Tveit]

In connection with Rune Sætre's defense, associate professor Jong C.
Park from KAIST, South Korea, will give the following guest lecture:

Title: Natural Language Information Service for Experts in Biology and
Bioinformatics through Text Mining and Management

Date: Wednesday 28 June

Time: 10.15-11.00

Room: IT-454 (IT-Vest, tidligere Nye Fysikk, Lunchrom 454 i fjerde).

Abstract:

Our research group at KAIST has been working on providing natural
language information services that are customized for users who have
special concerns, such as text animation for pre-teen children,
automatic generation of sign language expressions from texts for
aurally challenged, emotionally appropriate speech synthesis for the
elderly, and text mining and management for experts in biology and
bioinformatics, all using a lexicalized grammar framework for
linguistically motivated natural language processing.



In particular, the current scope of our work on text mining and
management includes information extraction from MEDLINE abstracts for
protein-protein interaction information, semi-automatic extension of
Gene Ontology with information from MEDLINE and other resources,
natural language query interpretation for management of information
from multiple heterogeneous databases, and visualization of
information from MEDLINE for knowledge discovery, along with a few
other applications. In this talk, I will introduce our general
research directions for natural language information service, and
describe the work on text mining and management in further detail.



About the speaker:

Jong C. Park has received BE and MSE in Computer Engineering from
Seoul National University in Korea in 1984 and 1986, respectively, and
after completing the obligatory military service in Korea, PhD in
Computer & Information Science (Natural Language Processing) from the
University of Pennsylvania in USA in 1996.  After working at the
University of Pennsylvania for two years as a postdoctoral
researcher, he has joined the faculty of the Computer Science Division
at KAIST in 1998, now as Associate Professor. His research interests
include Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Human
Computer Interaction through Language, and Bioinformatics.

(amund: more about Jong C. Park:
http://nlp.kaist.ac.kr/~park/
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/p/Park:Jong_C=.html
http://scholar.google.no/scholar?as_q=&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=any&as_sauthors=jong+c+park&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_allsubj=all&hl=en&lr=
)