PHTD 2012 Spring Meeting - units.sla.org

PHTD 2012 Spring Meeting, Baltimore MD
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Sunday, March 18 (CE Course)
9 am - 1 pm Applying text mining techniques for scientific literature
and patent search and analysis: A Hands-On Workshop
Instructors:
Dr. David Milward, Chief Technology Officer, Linguamatics
Dr Jeff Nauss, Senior Application Specialist, Linguamatics
This course is for those interested in learning more about text mining, natural
language processing and how it is applies to drug discovery. Our goal is to
educate attendees on how to deal with the vast amounts of information available
from the literature, and how text mining can get them to answers more quickly.
Existing experience with text mining is not required.
Biographies
David Milward has 20 years experience of product development, consultancy and research
in natural language processing. David is a founder of Linguamatics and pioneer of interactive
text mining. He has been involved in applying text mining to applications in the life sciences
for over 10 years, initially as a Senior Computer Scientist at SRI International. David has a
PhD from the University of Cambridge, and was a researcher and lecturer at the University of
Edinburgh. He is widely published in the areas of information extraction, spoken dialogue,
parsing, syntax and semantics.
Jeff Nauss is an Applications Specialist with Linguamatics based in Boston, MA. Prior to
joining Linguamatics, Jeff served in the US Army, attaining the rank of major, and has held
positions as the Director of Molecular Modeling Services at the University of Cincinnati and as
the Lead Training Scientist for Accelrys. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in microbiology
and a Master of Science degree in biochemistry, both from Texas A&M University. His PhD is
from Rutgers University in physical chemistry.
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