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About the Contributors Violaine Prince is full professor at the University Montpellier 2 (Montpellier, France). She obtained her PhD in 1986 at the University of Paris VII, and her ‘habilitation’ (post-PhD degree) at the Univer- sity of Paris XI (Orsay). Previous head of Computer Science department at the Faculty of Sciences in Montpellier, previous head of the National University Council for Computer Science (grouping 3,000 professors and assistant professors in Computer Science in France), she now leads the NLP research team at LIRMM (Laboratoire d’Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier, a CNRS research unit). Her research interests are in natural language processing (NLP) and cognitive science. She has published more than 70 reviewed papers in books, journals and conferences, authored 10 research and education books, founded and chaired several conferences and belonged to program committees as well as journals reading committees. She is member of the board of the IEEE Computer Society French Chapter. Mathieu Roche is assistant professor at the University Montpellier 2, France. He received a PhD in computer science at the University Paris XI (Orsay) in 2004. With Jérôme Azé, he created in 2005 the DEFT challenge (‘DEfi Francophone de Fouille de Textes’ meaning ‘Text Mining Challenge’) which is a francophone equivalent of the TREC Conferences. His current main research interests at LIRMM (Laboratoire d’Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier, a CNRS research unit) are text mining, information retrieval, terminology, and natural language processing for schema mapping. * * * Sophia Ananiadou is director of The National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM)providing text mining services with particular focus on biomedicine. She is also reader in text mining in the School of Computer Science University of Manchester. She has authored over 150 publications in journals and conferences including the first edited book on text mining for biomedicine. She has received twice the IBM UIMA innovation award for her work on interoperability of text mining tools and the DAIWA award for her research in biotext mining. Frederic Andres has been an associate professor at National Institute of Informatics (NII) since 2000 and at The Graduate University for Advanced Studies since 2002. He received is his PhD from University of PARIS VI and his Doctor Habilitate (specialization: information engine) from University of Nantes, in 1993 and 2000 respectively. He was scientist at Bull (France) from 1989 to 1993, informa- Copyright © 2009, IGI Global, distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. About the Contributors tion system architect at Ifatec/Euriware (France) between 1996 and 2000. He is project leader of the Geomedia project and Myscoper project in the Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division. Research interests include, but are not limited to, distributed semantic information management sys- tems for Geomedia and multimedia applications. He has been serving at The World Organization for Digital Equality (WODE), as general secretary since January 2006. He is member of IEEE, ACM, and of many other societies. Rolf Apweiler studied biology in Heidelberg and Bath. He worked three years in drug discovery in the pharmaceutical industry and is involved in bioinformatics since 1987. Apweiler started his bioinfor- matics career working on Swiss-Prot at EMBL in Heidelberg, moved in 1994 to the EMBL Outstation EBI in Hinxton, UK, and is now Joint Head of the Protein and Nucleotide Data (PANDA) Group at EBI (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/panda/). This group coordinates the UniProt activities, InterPro, GOA, Reactome, PRIDE, IntAct, Ensembl, EMBL nucleotide sequence database, and some other projects at the EBI. Pooyan Asari graduated in software engineering from Tehran Azad University in 2005 and comple- ted a Masters of Information Technology from Macquarie University in 2007. He is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Sydney in the field of natural language processing applied to clinical settings. Since 1999, he has been involved in the IT industry as a software engineer and system deve- loper in different industrial and commercial projects in Iran and Australia. His professional experience includes working with MIS design and implementation, embedded system development and portable transaction solutions. Evelyn Camon, PhD, studied cellular and molecular immunology at the Institute for Animal Health (Berkshire, UK) in collaboration with University College Dublin (UCD) (Ireland). In 1998 she joined the EBI as an EMBL-Bank Scientific Curator responsible for assessment and preparation of nucleotide sequence and alignment data for inclusion in EMBL-Bank and EMBL-align databases. In October 2000 she took on a more senior role as the EBIs first Gene Ontology Annotation Project Co-ordinator project, a post funded by the NIH. Essentially this role involved training a team of curators to extract biological knowledge from the scientific literature in a standardized way (using Gene Ontology) and ensuring this data was linked to the relevant UniProtKB proteins and regularly disseminated. Camon has also been involved in evaluating data submitted to text mining competitions (BioCreative) and in reviewing bioinformatic articles. Furthermore in collaboration with EBI, MGI and UCL she has been involved in a new proposal to improve the annotation and ontology content for immunology and the immune system (http://www.geneontology.org/GO.immunology.shtml). She is currently affiliated with UCD, School of Biological Sciences. Vincent Claveau is a researcher for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). His research area includes natural language processing, machine learning and multimedia information retrieval. Vincent Claveau was first trained as an engineer. He obtained his PhD in computer science from University of Rennes 1, France, in 2003. During his doctoral thesis he developed methods of symbolic machine learning applied to lexical information extraction. After obtaining his PhD degree, he held a post-doctoral position in the Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte (OLST) research group of the University of Montreal, QC, Canada, where he worked in the linguistic and terminological fields. About the Contributors Besides his research activities, Vincent Claveau also teaches graduate students natural language pro- cessing and machine learning. Francisco M. Couto has a Master (2001) in informatics and computer engineering from the Insti- tuto Superior Técnico. He obtained a PhD (2006) in Informatics, specialization Bioinformatics, from the Universidade de Lisboa. He is currently an assistant professor with the Informatics Department at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa. He teaches courses in Information Systems and coordinates the Master in Biomedical Informatics. He is currently a member of the LASIGE research group, co-coordinating the Biomedical Informatics research line. Manuel C. Díaz-Galiano is assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Jaén University (Spain). He received MS degree in computer science from the University of Granada. His current main research interest is intelligent search, including search engines, search assistants, natural language processing tools for text mining and retrieval and human computer interaction. Relevant topics include multilingual-multimodal information access, ontologies (wordnets, MeSH, UMLS), Web search engines. Mr. Díaz is member of the Research Group of Intelligent Systems of Information Access in the University of Jaén and member of SEPLN. He has participated in several research projects and several contracts with companies in technology transfer. Emily Dimmer, PhD, studied plant genetics (University of Cambridge). In 2003, she joined the EBI as a scientific database curator. She is presently the coordinator of the GOA group at the EBI (http:// www.ebi.ac.uk <http://www.ebi.ac.uk/>). GOA is a central member of the Gene Ontology Consortium, providing a comprehensive set of manual and electronic annotations to proteins in the UniProt Knowl- edgeBase for all species. GOA has a specific remit to providing high-quality manual annotation for the human proteome, recently securing grants to support focused, community-led GO annotation projects to annotate gene products implicated in heart and kidney development and disease. Laura Dioşan currently works as PhD student in the Computer Science Department ofBabes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania and in Laboratoire d’Informatique, de Traitement de l’Information et des Systèmes, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Rouen, France. Her main research area is in Evolutionary Computation. Laura Dioşan is authored/co-authored of several papers in peer reviewed international journals and proceedings of the international conferences. She proposed some evolutionary techniques for optimization of algorithm’s architecture, a genetic programming technique for solving symbolic regression and classification problems, an evolutionary framework for evolving kernel func- tions for support vector machines. She is member of the IEEE (CS), IEEE (NN) and ACM. Anastasios D. Doulamis received the Diploma degree in electrical and computer engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 1995 with the highest honor. In 2000, he has received the PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering from the NTUA. From