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Archived Curricula Guide 2011–2012
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BIOI4340 Text Mining in the Biomedical Domain 3 ECTS
Organised by
Bioinformatics
Person in charge
Tapio Salakoski

Learning outcomes

The course reviews common applications of text mining methods in the biomedical domain from a user perspective. The objective is to become acquainted with this relatively new research area within bioinformatics.

Contents

Literature and ontology resources, text retrieval, information extraction, adaptation of text mining to the biomedical domain.

Teaching methods

Teaching method Contact Online
Lectures 2 h 0 h
Independent work 40 h 0 h

Self-study based course with moderated discussion on Moodle.

Teaching language

English

Modes of study

Examination type dependent on student's activity during the course.

Evaluation

Pass/fail.

Recommended year of study

2. year spring

Study materials

Ananiadou, Sophia - McNaught, John: Text mining for biology and biomedicine, 2005, ISBN: 978-1580539845

Further information

Organization responsible: Turku DIT

Belongs to following study modules

Institute of Biomedical Technology
Optional studies (Bioinformatics)
2011–2012
Teaching
Archived Teaching Schedule. Please refer to current Teaching Shedule.
Period I Period II Period III Period IV
BIOI4340 Text Mining in the Biomedical Domain
Institute of Biomedical Technology