Acknowledgments

Members

GENIA Project founder and principal investigator

  • Jun'ichi Tsujii

GENIA Project coordination

  • Nigel Collier: member 1998-2000; GENIA coordinator, 1998-2000
  • Yuka Tateisi: member 1999-2006; Annotation coordinator, GENIA corpus Part-of-Speech annotation and Treebank, 1999-2006
  • Sang-Zoo Lee: member 1999?-2001; Annotation coordinator, GENIA corpus Term annotation, 1999?-2001
  • Tomoko Ohta: member 1999-present; Annotation coordinator, GENIA corpus Term, Event, and Relation annotations, and Other GENIA Project corpora, 1999-present
  • Jin-Dong Kim: member 2001-2010; GENIA coordinator, 2001-2010
  • Sampo Pyysalo: member 2008-present; GENIA coordinator, 2010-present

GENIA Project members

Researchers
  • Teruyoshi Hishiki
  • Norihiro Ogata
  • Hyun Seok Park: event extraction, machine learning
  • Hideki Mima: software tools, semantic clustering
  • Tomaz Erjavec: TEI version of GENIA corpus version 3.0
  • Yoshimasa Tsuruoka: named entity recognition, relation extraction, dependency parsing
  • Kanae Oda: pathway curation
  • Kenji Sagae: dependency parsing; GDep
  • Rune Saetre: protein protein interaction, gene normalization
  • Naoaki Okazaki: named entity recognition, acronym recognition, gene normalization
  • Makoto Miwa: event extraction; EventMine, software tools; Xconc
Students
  • Takeshi Sekimizu: IE, named entity recognition
  • Chikashi Nobata: IE, named entity recognition
  • Katsutoshi Ibushi
  • Hisao Imai
  • Tatsuhiko Miyagawa: IR, hypertext generation
  • Jun'ichi Kazama: IE, named entity recognition
  • Akane Yakushiji: IE, protein protein interaction
  • Hong-Woo Chun: IE, disease gene association
  • Katsuya Masuda: IR; MEDIE
  • Junpei Takeuchi: software tools; Info-pubmed
  • Yue Wang: IE, named entity recognition, domain adaptation, Treebank annotation
  • Tadayoshi Hara: domain adaptation of HPSG parser
  • Kazuhiro Yoshida: named entity recognition
  • Kenta Oouchida: software tools
  • Sumire Uematsu: semantic representation
  • Nguyen Luu Thyu Ngan: co-reference resolution
  • Han-Cheol Cho: IE, named entity recognition
  • Pontus Stenetorp: IE, named entity recognition, software tools; brat, stav
  • Goran Topic: software tools; brat, stav
  • Yu Usami: IE, named entity recognition

GENIA Annotators

  • Naoko Sumi: Document acquisition, OCR
  • Yoriko Tanaka: Document acquisition, OCR
  • Nobuyuki Ishizaka: Term annotation
  • Yusuke Kubota: PoS tagging
  • Kyoko Takano: PoS tagging
  • Camille Yamada: PoS tagging
  • Emi Maekawa: Treebank annotation
  • Akiko Sakaguti: Treebank annotation
  • Minako Ito: Treebank annotation
  • Yo Shidahara: Event annotation
  • Noriko Katsu: Event annotation
  • Junko Matsuura: Event annotation
  • Maki Niihori: Event annotation
  • Yumiko Katsu-Kimura: Event and Relation annotation
  • Hitomi Masuda: Event annotation
  • Kana Sasaki: Event annotation
  • Eriko Asato: Event annotation
  • Ayami Kubota: Event annotation
  • Yoshihiro Okuda: Event annotation

External collaborators

The following researchers have contributed to specific GENIA Project efforts.
  • Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM): NaCTeM coordination, BioNLP ST ID task
  • Bruno Sobral, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech: VBI coordination, BioNLP ST ID task
  • Rafal Rak, National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM): BioNLP ST ID task entity mention detection
  • Dan Sullivan, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech: BioNLP ST ID task annotation
  • Chunhong Mao, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech: BioNLP ST ID task annotation
  • Chunxia Wang, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech: BioNLP ST ID task annotation
  • Jian Su, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore: Coreference annotation

Support

The GENIA Project has been supported by
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Area "Genome Information Science" (MEXT, Japan),
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Area "Systems Genomics" (MEXT, Japan)
  • Core Research for Evolutional Science & Technology (CREST) "Information Mobility Project" (JST, Japan)
  • Solution Oriented Research for Science and Technology (SORST) (JST, Japan)
  • Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research (MEXT, Japan)
  • Genome Network Project (MEXT, Japan)

Website

The current GENIA website has been created by Tomoko Ohta, Sampo Pyysalo, Jin-Dong Kim and Yuka Tateisi.