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.