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CA Article 10: Scientific Advisory Committee(1) The Assembly may decide on the establishment of a Scientific Advisory Committee, in

accordance with Article 6 of this Agreement.(2) In such case, the Scientific Advisory Committee shall consist of scientists

conducting research in the field of the Network activities. The members of the Scientific Advisory Committee shall be appointed by unanimous decision of the Parties’ representatives in the Assembly and according to a selection procedure to be agreed upon within the Assembly. The rules and agreements related to the appointment must ensure that matters of confidentiality are observed and that all members of the Scientific Advisory Committee sign a non-disclosure agreement.

(3) The Scientific Advisory Committee should deliberate on science-related matters of the Network and formulate recommendations to the Assembly and Board and can also be requested by the Assembly and the Board to deliberate on further specific topics. To this end, the Scientific Advisory Committee shall in particular:i) formulate recommendations to the Assembly and the Board on the content, planning and execution of the Parties’ joint research programme within the Network;ii) formulate recommendations to the Assembly and the Board with respect to any other scientific aspects and requirements of the Network.

(4) The Scientific Advisory Committee shall meet at least once per year or upon request by the Assembly or the Board. The Scientific Advisory Committee shall elect a moderator for its deliberations and take its decisions according to internal rules to be agreed upon by the Scientific Advisory Committee and approved by the Assembly.

(5) The Assembly or the Board may invite the members of the Scientific Advisory Committee to attend their meetings in order to give further explanations on its recommendations.

SemanticMining Scientific Advisory Board

SemanticMining Scientific Advisory Board

Robert Baud, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève

Anita Burgun, Université de Rennes

Christopher Chute, Mayo Foundation, Rochester

Alan Rector, University of Manchester

Jean-Marie Rodrigues, Saint Etienne Medical School

Cornelius Rosse, School of Medicine, University of Washington

MD., Professor of Medical Informatics and Epidemiology. IMIA WG Medical Concept Representation, ANSI Clinical Vocabularies

MD., PhD, Professor of Medical Informatics, GALEN, PEN&PAD, CO-ODE, Clinical E-Science, Semantic Web Bioinformatics

MD., D.Sc. Professor emeritus of Anatomy, DIGITAL ANATOMIST, FOUNDATIONAL MODEL OF ANATOMY

Researcher at Medical Informatics LabMAOUSSC terminology, UMLS, Bioontologies

Physicist (CERN), Head of Medical Informatics DivisionChairman Working Group 8 of EFMI on Natural Language UnderstandingHELIOS, GALEN in USE

MD., Professor of Epidemiology, Health Economics and PreventionGALEN, CEN Chairmain for Medical Procedures standards

WP 20: Research Activity WP 20: Research Activity Multilingual Medical DictionaryMultilingual Medical Dictionary

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WP20 Partners

• UKLFR Freiburg Univ. Hospital Medical Informatics• JENA University of Jena Computational Linguistics • LIU IMT Linköping Univ. Medical Informatics• LIU IDA Linköping Univ. Computer Science• KI Karolinska Inst. Stockholm• UGOT Göteborg University• SU Sahlgrenska Hospital Göteborg • DIM Geneva Univ. Hospital Med. Informatics • ITRI Brighton Univ. IT Research Institute• CNR ISTC Inst. of Cognitive Science, Lab. Applied Ontology• NORDCLASS WHO Collaboration Center for Classification of

Diseases in the Nordic countries• INSERM Public Health and Medical Informatics

Laboratory,UFR Broussais, Paris, France

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Strategic Plan

• Lexical Acquisition: Developing semi-automated techniques for lexical acquisition

• Increasing the coverage and quality of existing lexicons

• Pooling heterogeneous sources (lexicons, corpora)• Developing a specification for a multilingual lexicon• Integration of multilingual lexicons into cross-

language IR systems (-> WP 24)• Linking lexicons to existing terminology systems

(UMLS, WordNet, -> WP 21)

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Meetings and Visits 2004

• Freiburg, March 2004: Kick-Off Meeting

• Göteborg, May 2004: Lexicon Acquisition Meeting

• Regular meetings between • the Göteborg groups UGOT and SU

• the Linköping groups LiU-IMT and LiU-IDA

• the German groups UKLFR and UNIFR/JENA

• Visit of Kornél Markó (UKLFR) at Göteborg (May)

• Visit of Anders Thurin (SU) at Freiburg (September)

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Activities

• Lexical Specification for integrating heterogeneous lexicons:• Elaboration of a draft specification for hetrogeneous lexicons (DIM)• Initial design for a DATR-inspired interface (ITRI)

• Subword lexicon: • Inclusion of French and Swedish suffixes (UGOT, DIM), Ongoing

development of lexical resources • Initial design of Quality control measures (UKLFR). • generating candidate Swedish and Spanish subwords by character

translation from German, English and Portuguese subwords (SU, UKLFR, JENA)

• Word alignment in English and Swedish, improvement of interactive word alignment tools as regards precision in proposals and support tools. (LiU-IDA)

• Collection of corpora (> 2 Gbyte) for 6 languages (UKLFR, UNIFR)• Updating of a Swedish general purpose lexicon with medical terms (UGOT).• Integration of medical terminology in a Swedish named entity recognition system

(UGOT).• Ongoing development of lexical resources for computer-assisted Swedish LSP

instruction to non-Swedish healthcare staff (UGOT).

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Plans for 2005

• End December: Report D 20.1• WP 20 Planning Meeting in February:

Decisions about common data structure Conversion and exchange of lexicons Concretization of joint research objectives Preparation of D 20.2 (due June)

• Increase of interaction with WP 21 and WP24• Internal Workshop on Summer School (July)• Open Workshop on Lexical acquisition, to be

decided

WP 14 Workshop/tutorial on Data Mining in Bioinformatics DatabasesWP 15 Workshop/tutorial on Text Mining

and Information Retrieval

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and Information Retrieval

SMBM 2005

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SMBM 2005: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Information/events/SMBM/index.html

• Location: EBI, Cambridge UK

• Dates: Dec 15, 2004 Tutorial Proposals Submission Deadline Dec 15, 2004 Panel Discussion Submission Deadline

Jan 15, 2005 Paper Submission Deadline

• Programme Chairs: Udo Hahn, Alfonso Valencia

• Programme (Apr 10 – 13)

Sunday: TutorialsMonday: EBI tour, Keynote, Scientific Sessions, Opening ReceptionTuesday: Keynote, Scientific Sessions, Conference DinnerWednesday: Keynote, Scientific Sessions, Panels

• Keynote Speakers: Carol Friedman, Junich'ii Tsuji, Gert-Jan van Ommen

• Selected Papers in Bioinformatics