报告题目：The Role of Knowledge inBiomedical Language Processing/生物医药语言处理的知识作用

报告人： Larry Hunter 教授

报告时间：2016年10月20日（周四）16:00

报告地点：逸夫楼C座314会议室

摘要：

Biomedical natural languageprocessing or “text mining”is an increasingly popular technique used to address information overload inbiomedical research. However, theperformance of computer programs that process human language are limited byambiguities in the meaning of language that do not impede humanunderstanding. Furthermore, the outputsof text mining software is most useful when it can be combined with otherinformation from more structured data sources. Formally represented knowledge is important both as an output format fortext mining and as an approach for addressing ambiguity in natural languageprocessing.

报告人简介：

Prof. Lawrence Hunter is theDirector of the University of Colorado's Computational Bioscience Program and aProfessor of Pharmacology (School of Medicine) and Computer Science(Boulder). He received a Ph.D. in computerscience from Yale University in 1989, and then joined the National Institutesof Health as a staff scientist, first at the National Library of Medicine andthen at the National Cancer Institute, before coming to Colorado in 2000. Dr. Hunter is widely recognized as one of thefounders of bioinformatics; he served as the first President of theInternational Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), and created several ofthe most important conferences in the field, including ISMB, PSB and VizBi .Dr. Hunter's research interests span a wide range of areas, from cognitivescience to rational drug design. He has published more than 100 scientificpapers, holds two patents and has been elected a fellow of both the ISCB andthe American College of Medical Informatics. His primary focus recently hasbeen the integration of natural language processing, knowledge representation,machine learning and advanced visualization techniques to address challenges ininterpreting data generated by high throughput molecular biology.