National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM)

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The National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) is a text mining research centre at the University of Manchester, in the Department of Computer Science, established in 2004 as the first publicly funded text mining centre in the world. It carries out research and provides tools, services and resources in text and data mining, natural language processing, information extraction and named entity recognition for the United Kingdom research community. Its work spans annotated corpora and terminologies, systematic review and evidence synthesis text mining, and applications from biomedical and clinical text to the digital humanities, including the AHRC-funded Mining the History of Medicine project. It has developed widely used text mining tools and corpora and continues to work across natural language processing, machine learning and applied text mining.

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Founding year

2004

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University of Manchester
Manchester