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Career

· Research Staff/Group Leader, NaCTeM (The Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre)2026–
· Adjunct Professor, Wuhan University2025–
· PhD in Natural Language Processing, University of Manchester1985–1988
· Group Leader, Research Staff and Software Engineers, NaCTeM (The Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre)
· Professor, Natural Language Processing and Director, NaCTeM, The Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre
· Professor in Computer Science and Director of NaCTeM, University of Manchester
· Professor, Natural Language Processing, University of Manchester

Publications (532)

brat: a Web-based Tool for NLP-Assisted Text Annotation
Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2012
1,409
cited
Automatic recognition of multi-word terms:. the C-value/NC-value method
International Journal on Digital Libraries · 2000
934
cited
Using text mining for study identification in systematic reviews: a systematic review of current approaches
Systematic Reviews · 2015
631
cited
On the definition of word
Machine Translation · 2004
553
cited
Developing a Robust Part-of-Speech Tagger for Biomedical Text
Panhellenic Conference on Informatics · 2005
537
cited
Distributional Semantics Resources for Biomedical Text Processing
2013
509
cited
Text mining and its potential applications in systems biology.
Trends in Biotechnology · 2006
347
cited
Natural language processing applied to mental illness detection: a narrative review
npj Digital Medicine · 2022
346
cited
Text mining and ontologies in biomedicine: Making sense of raw text
Briefings Bioinform. · 2005
338
cited
Computational linguistics and intelligent text processing : 12th international conference, CICLing 2011, Tokyo, Japan, February 20-26, 2011 : proceedings
2001
332
cited
Stochastic Gradient Descent Training for L1-regularized Log-linear Models with Cumulative Penalty
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2009
257
cited
A Neural Layered Model for Nested Named Entity Recognition
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2018
250
cited
Event extraction for systems biology by text mining the literature.
Trends in Biotechnology · 2010
244
cited
The C-value/NC-value Method of Automatic Recognition for Multi-Word Terms
European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries · 1998
227
cited
Connecting the Dots: Document-level Neural Relation Extraction with Edge-oriented Graphs
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2019
216
cited
Applications of text mining within systematic reviews
Research Synthesis Methods · 2011
211
cited
Inter-sentence Relation Extraction with Document-level Graph Convolutional Neural Network
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2019
207
cited
The C-value/NC-value domain-independent method for multi-word term extraction
1999
198
cited
Transformer for Graphs: An Overview from Architecture Perspective
arXiv.org · 2022
193
cited
Reducing systematic review workload through certainty-based screening
Journal of Biomedical Informatics · 2014
186
cited
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