Prof Sophia Ananiadou
Chair in Computer Science

Overview
Sophia Ananiadou is Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester and is the director of The National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) the only centre of its type in the world.
She has led the development of the text mining tools and services currently used in NaCTeM with the aim of providing scalable text mining services: information extraction, intelligent searching, association mining, etc. She has received the IBM UIMA innovation award 3 consecutive times and is also a Daiwa award winner.
Education
- PhD Computational Linguistics, UMIST
- DEA, Linguistics, Paris VII, Jussieu, France
- DEA, Literature, Paris IV, Sorbonne, France
- BA, Language and Linguistics, University of Athens, Greece
Employment history
- Research Associate, University of Geneva, Machine Translation (1983-1984)
- Research Assistant, Department of Computational Linguistics, UMIST (1985-1993)
- Research Fellow, Language and Engineering, UMIST (1999-2000)
- Senior Lecturer, Computing, Manchester Metropolitan University (1993-1999)
- Senior Lecturer, Computer Science, School of Computing Science and Engineering, University of Salford (2000-2005)
External positions
Turing Fellow, Alan Turing Institute
15 Oct 2018 → 14 Oct 2020
Distinguished Research Fellow, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, AIST
Oct 2017 → Sep 2020
Keywords
- Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Related information
Publications
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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