NaCTeM

About NaCTeM

The National Centre for Text Mining is the first publicly-funded text mining centre in the world. We provide text mining services in response to the requirements of the UK academic community and make significant contributions to the text mining research community, both nationally and internationally. You can find a fuller description of the aims and objectives of the Centre in our article in Ariadne Magazine.

On our website, you can find pointers to more sources of information about text mining, including links to tutorials and publications (see Resources). There is more information on available software tools, both those provided by the Centre and by others, under Software. Our calendar contains information on text mining conferences and workshops (please let us know if you would like an event you are organising included). Check back regularly as we are continually adding to this information.

Consortium Partners

The Centre is operated by two Universities:

  • the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester leads the consortium and contributes expertise in information extraction, natural language processing and parallel and distributed data mining
  • the Special Collections and Archives section of the University of Liverpool library have experience and expertise in information retrieval systems.

Associate Partners

In addition to the main consortium partners, there are a number of self-funded associates from world-leading groups:

  • San Diego Supercomputer Center — the Data Intensive Computing group led by Reagan Moore
  • University of California, Berkeley — Ray Larson and colleagues have many years of experience in designing and developing information retrieval systems
  • University of Tokyo — Professor Tsujii's lab are world-leading researchers in the field of computation linguistics, especially in the application of such technology to the biomedical domain.