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Professor
Alan Rector, Co-Investigator
Alan Rector is Professor of Medical Informatics in the School
of Computer Science at University of Manchester. He currently leads
the JISC/EPSRC jointly funded CO-ODE/HyOntUse projects on ontology
development tools and the University team in a major collaboration
with Siemens Health and CIS-Informatics of Glasgow. His research
interests are in knowledge representation and management, user interface
design, and practical support of patient care. He has led the MRC
funded Clinical E-Science Framework (CLEF) program, the MRC/DoH
funded PEN&PAD programme on user centred design of intelligent
clinical interfaces, the EC funded GALEN programme a large reference
ontology for clinical medicine. He is a member of the W3C Semantic
Web Best Practices Working Group and on HL7, CEN and ISO working
groups on healthcare terminology. In 2003 he was awarded the first
BCS Award for Lifetime Achievement in Health Informatics. Visit
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Professor
Donia Scott, Co-Investigator
Donia Scott is Professor of Computational Linguistics
in the School of Informatics at the University of Sussex. A
major thread of her research focuses on the issue of intuitive methods
for presenting complex information to non-computer specialists.
She has led a number of projects in this area, including the EPSRC-funded
DRAFTER, ICONOCLAST, GNOME and RAGS projects, the EU-funded GIST,
AGILE, PILLS and Semantic Mining projects and the MRC-funded CLEF
and CLEF-Services projects. Professor Scott is currently Co-PI on
a Wellcome project on Ergonomics of Electronic Patient Records.
With Richard Power, she has contributed to the development of the
Conceptual Authoring technique that will underpin much of the work
of the SWAT project. Professor Scott sits on many professional bodies
in her field and has for six years served as a member of the executive
committee of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
and as Chair of the European Chapter of ACL. Visit
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Dr
Richard Power, Principal Investigator
Dr Richard Power is Senior Lecturer in the Department of
Computing at the Open University. After studying psychology at Sheffield
University, he joined the Department of Machine Intelligence at
Edinburgh University (1970-74), where he did his PhD work on dialogue
generation under the supervision of Professor Christopher Longuet-Higgins.
From 1975-78 he continued this collaboration as a post-doctoral
research fellow in the Experimental Psychology Laboratory at Sussex
University, where among other projects he developed a program for
learning numeral systems. He then moved to Italy, where for some
years he taught English at Padua University and developed expert
systems for a Milan-based company called Artificial Intelligence
Software. In 1993 he returned to Britain to work on Natural Language
Generation (NLG) at the Information Technology Research Institute
(ITRI) at the University of Brighton, before moving in 2005 (along
with some ITRI colleagues) to the Department of Computing at the
Open University. During these years he has worked in particular
on thse use of NLG for knowledge authoring (the WYSIWYM systems)
and on applying constraint-solving methods in text planning. Visit
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Dr
Robert Stevens, Principal Investigator
Robert is a senior lecturer in Bioinformatics at the University
of Manchester. He has a B.Sc. in biochemistry; an M.Sc. in biological
Computation; and a D.Phil. in Computer Science. His main areas of
research interest in relation to SWAT are the development and use
of ontologies to describe biology so as to make knowledge about
molecular biology computationally useful. He is am particularly
interested in the communal building of ontologies -- enabling domain
experts to use the power of formal, expressive languages, such as
the Web Ontology Language (OWL). Also relevant to SWAT is his interest
in accessibility of information on computers. Visit
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Dr
Sandra Williams - Research Fellow
Sandra Williams has been Researcher in Natural
Language Generation in the Computing Department at The Open University
since 2006. Most recently she was PI of an ESRC project that investigated
the planning and generation of English numerical expressions from
numerical information. She also contributed to medical informatics
projects on the presentation of information to patients. Williams'
research career began in the 1980s at British Telecom Research Labs
where, amongst other projects, she developed the first web-based
Text Summariser. She completed her Ph.D. in 2004 at Aberdeen University
where she spent a further two years as a Post Doctoral Research
Fellow building a feedback tool for adult basic skills assessment.
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Dr
Fennie Liang - Research Associate
Fennie Liang did her PhD between 2003 and 2006 in search engine results summarisation. She was involved in a Defence Project:SEMIOTIKS in the University of Southampton between 2006 and 2009, where her research focused on applying semantic web technologies to help humanitarian demining group on prioritising demining areas. She joined the Bio Health Informatics Group in the School of Computer Science, the University of Manchester and work for the EPSRC project-SWAT since September 2009. She has possessed several research knowledge areas of Computer Science such as Automatic Summarisation, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Text mining, Semantic Web and Ontologies.
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