Sophia Ananiadou

Sophia Ananiadou
NationalityGreek and British
Other namesSofia Ananiadou
EducationLycée français St Joseph, Athens
Alma materUniversity of Athens (BA)
Paris VII (DEA)
Paris IV (DEA)
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (PhD)
Known forBiomedical text mining
AwardsDaiwa Adrian Prize (2004)
Scientific career
FieldsNatural Language Processing
Text mining
Artificial Intelligence
InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester
Manchester Metropolitan University
University of Salford
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
ThesisTowards a methodology for automatic term recognition (1988)
Websitewww.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/sophia.ananiadou.html

Sophia Ananiadou is a Greek-British computer scientist and computational linguist. She led the development of and directs the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) in the United Kingdom. She is also Professor in Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester.

Her research focusses on biomedical 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, allow discovery of risk in the construction industry from health and safety incident reports and enable interoperability of components in text mining workflows.