Text analytics for life science using the Unstructured Information Management Architecture

IBM Systems Journal,  Sept, 2004  by R. Mack,  S. Mukherjea,  A. Soffer,  N. Uramoto,  E. Brown,  A. Coden,  J. Cooper,  A. Inokuchi,  B. Iyer,  Y. Mass,  H. Matsuzawa,  L.V. Subramaniam

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Aya Soffer IBM Research Division, Haifa Research Laboratory, University Campus, Haifa, Israel31905 (ayas@il.ibm.com). Dr. Soffer is a research staff member at the IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel, where she manages the Information Retrieval group. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1992 and 1995, respectively. Before joining IBM, Dr. Softer was a research scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where she worked on digital libraries for earth science data. Her research interests include information retrieval, pictorial information systems, multidimensional indexing, and non-traditional database systems. Dr. Softer and her group have developed several knowledge management solutions for IBM and Lotus products, among them the WebSphere * Portal's search engine.

Naohiko Uramoto IBM Research Division, Tokyo Research Laboratory, 1623-14, Shimotsuruma, Yamato, Kanagawa, Japan (uramoto@jp.ibm.com). Dr. Uramoto joined the IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory in 1990 after receiving a master's degree in computer science from Kyushu University. He received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Kyushu University in 1990. He has been a visiting associate professor at the National Institute of Informatics since 2000. His research interests include natural language processing, text mining, XML and meta-data, and information integration.

Eric Brown IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, N.Y., 10532 (ewb@us.ibm.com). Dr. Brown is a research staff member at the Watson Research Center. He received a B.S. degree from the University of Vermont and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, all in computer science. Dr. Brown joined IBM in 1995 and conducts research in a variety of information-retrieval and text-analysis areas, including parallel and distributed information retrieval, question answering, text categorization, applications of speech recognition in knowledge management, and text analysis and search for biomedical text.

Anni Coden IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, N.X, 10532 (anni@us.ibm.com). Dr. Coden is a research staff member at the Watson Research Center. She received her Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981 and continued there as a research scientist. She joined the IBM Research Division in 1982, and has worked in various areas of computer science. She started her career in developing tools for computer chip design and continued her work in IBM's anti-virus project. More recently, she worked on algorithms and systems in the area of digital multimedia libraries and on analyzing and searching speech transcripts in real-time video systems. Her current investigations are in the area of automatically analyzing medical records for knowledge discovery.

James Cooper IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, N.Y., 10532 (jwcmnr@us.ibm.com). Dr. Cooper is a research staff member at the Watson Research Center, where he studies problems in text analytics and object-oriented design. He received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry and has been working on problems in computing and chemistry at IBM and elsewhere in the industry for more than 20 years. He is a well-known writer, having published 15 books in computer science, is a columnist for JavaPro Magazine, and is currently the most widely translated author at IBM Research.