National Centre for Text Mining
The National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) is the first publicly-funded text mining centre in the world (funded by JISC, BBSRC and EPSRC). With over 20 researchers working on biomedical text mining, NaCTeM provides text mining services to academia and industry. Based within the MIB, NaCTeM collaborates in developing text mining applications and tools with the world leading Tsujii-lab at the University of Tokyo, and in exploiting them with a number of commercial, non-profit, government and academic groups. NaCTeM is also working very closely with MCISB and BRC in applications such as using text mining for the better understanding of the evidence for biochemical and signaling pathways, supporting systematic reviews and clinical trials, and building large-scale terminological resources for biomedical text mining.
NaCTeM’s services include advanced information retrieval using semantic search based on concepts and facts, terminology management (synonymy detection and disambiguation), information extraction to identify biomedical entities, relations and bio-events and data mining to find associations among the pieces of information extracted from the vast amount of literature. All these services are available from NaCTeM’s portal.
- See the NaCTeM website for further information.