Sophia Ananiadou, Date of Birth

Sophia Ananiadou

researcher, University of Manchester

Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1958

Profession: computer scientist, linguist

Nationality: Greece, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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Sophia Ananiadou (31/12/1957– ) is a Greek computational linguist.
She led the development of the first publicly funded national text mining centre in the world, the UK National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM).
She currently works at the University of Manchester as the director of NaCTeM and also as a professor in the Department of Computer Science.Her research has focussed on biomedilcal text mining and natural language processing and has fed into the development of numerous applications that, for example, facilitate the discovery of new knowledge, enable exploration of historical archives, allow semantic search of biomedical literature, reduce human effort in screening search hits for production of systematic reviews, enable enrichment of metabolic pathway models with evidence from the literature, and enable interoperability of components in text mining workflows.