National Centre for Text Mining appoints new director
The National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) has announced the appointment
of Professor Jun'ichi Tsujii as its new Director. Professor Tsujii is
Professor of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing at
the University of Tokyo and will spend half of his time at NaCTeM’s
headquarters in the University of Manchester, and the rest at the
University of Tokyo. Professor Tsujii will also fill the Chair of Text
Mining in the School of Informatics at the University of Manchester.
The Centre is the first publicly funded centre for text mining in the
world. Jointly funded by Jisc, the BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological
Sciences Research Council) and the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council), its remit is to provide a service for the wider academic
community in the field of text mining, contribute to national and
international developments and to make connections with industry.
For further information on NaCTeM, please click on the following
link: National Centre for Text
Mining.
For the full announcement of Professor Tsujii’s appointment, please click
on the following link: full
announcement