BOOTStrep
Bootstrapping Of Ontologies and Terminologies STrategic REsearch Project (BOOTStrep) is a project funded under the EC's Sixth Framework Programme as a Specific Targeted Research Project.
- Duration: 1/4/2006 - 31/3/2009
- Overall project budget: €4.2M
- Value of funding to University of Manchester: €755K
Aims
- to build two major reusable, wide-coverage lexical and conceptual repositories for the biology domain, i.e. a bio-lexicon and a bio-ontology using text mining techniques
- to harmonise and augment existing bio-terminologies and bio-ontologies
- to allow multilingual querying of scientific knowledge and databases
Partners
- Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena (Germany)
- European Molecular Biology Institute/European Bioinformatics Institute (UK)
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche/Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (Italy)
- University of Manchester (UK)
- Université de Rennes (France)
- Institute for Infocomm Research (Singapore)
- Universitätsklinikum Freiburg (Germany)
Contacts
- Sophia Ananiadou (Principal Investigator)
- John McNaught (Co-investigator)
Featured News
- Invited talk at the 15th Marbach Castle Drug-Drug Interaction Workshop
- Call for papers: CL4Health @ NAACL 2025
- BioNLP 2025 and Shared Tasks accepted for co-location at ACL 2025
- Prof. Junichi Tsujii honoured as Person of Cultural Merit in Japan
- Participation in panel at Cyber Greece 2024 Conference, Athens
- Shared Task on Financial Misinformation Detection at FinNLP-FNP-LLMFinLegal
- New Named Entity Corpus for Occupational Substance Exposure Assessment
- FinNLP-FNP-LLMFinLegal @ COLING-2025 - Call for papers
Other News & Events
- Keynote talk at Manchester Law and Technology Conference
- Keynote talk at ACM Summer School on Data Science, Athens
- Invited talk at the 8th Annual Women in Data Science Event at the American University of Beirut
- Invited talk at the 2nd Symposium on NLP for Social Good (NSG), University of Liverpool
- Invited talk at Annual Meeting of the Danish Society of Occupational and Environmental Medicine