Conferences

Linguamatics will be exhibiting at/attending the following conferences. Please visit us at our booth to find out more:

• Linguamatics Fall Users Conference October 12-14 2010, Boston MA, USA
• ICIC 2010 October 24-27 2010, Vienna, Austria

David Milward, CTO at Linguamatics, will be presenting "Interactive Text Mining Techniques for Patent Search and Mining".
Agile text mining approaches have been shown to be valuable for answering questions and extracting knowledge across life sciences research and discovery. This presentation focuses on particular techniques relevant to patent mining. These include use of linguistics for filtering noise and for terminology development, flexible categorisation and the ability to plug in domain-specific thesauri. By adopting these techniques we show how it is possible to accelerate the systematic and comprehensive analysis of a series of patents relating to a compound family, and combine the results with insights from other literature sources such as an organisation's internal documents or external scientific literature.

• Pharma-Bio-Med 2010 November 7-10 2010, Seville, Spain

Previous Conferences

A Joint Linguamatics and Accelrys Seminar
"Text Analytics in Life Science R&D"  June 22 2010, Princeton, NJ, USA

Text Analytics Summit May 25-26 2010, Boston MA, USA

ChemAxon European UGM May 19-20 2010, Budapest, Hungary

Linguamatics Spring Users Conference May 17-19 2010, Cambridge, UK

Accelrys North American User Group Meeting 2010 May 4-6 2010, Boston, MA

David Keilman (Linguamatics Director of Channel & Alliances - USA), will be presenting "Linguamatics I2E integration with Pipeline Pilot, a workflow for streamlined text mining".
I2E is a flexible, interactive information extraction system based on Natural Language Processing (NLP). Rather than only searching for keywords, I2E interprets the meaning of unstructured text and rapidly extracts relevant facts and relationships. I2E is used by many of the world's leading pharmaceutical organizations to provide insights from thousands to millions of documents, supporting critical decision making. Linguamatics has recently joined the Accelrys ISV partner network for Pipeline Pilot development. This talk will highlight how the I2E Pipeline Pilot protocols allow for an automated, streamlined approach to text mining.

Search Engine Meeting 2010 April 26-27 2010, Boston, MA

David Milward, CTO at Linguamatics, will be presenting "From Document Search to Knowledge Discovery - Changing the Paradigm".
Business success is often dependent on making timely decisions based on the best information available. Typically, for text information this has meant using document search. However, the process can be accelerated by using agile text mining to provide decision-makers directly with answers rather than sets of documents. This presentation will review the challenges faced in bringing together diverse and extensive information resources to answer business-critical R&D questions in the pharmaceutical domain. In particular, it will outline how an agile NLP-based approach for discovering facts and relationships from free text can be used to leverage scientific knowledge, and move beyond search to automated profiling and hypothesis generation from millions of documents in real time.

Bio-IT World April 20-22 2010, Boston, MA
Winner of iPod nano prize draw - Mary Jacewicz

C-Shals 24 February 2010, Boston, MA

Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference 3 February 2010, San Francisco, CA
Winner of iPod nano prize draw - Jennifer Blancas

Pharma-Bio-Med 2009 9 November 2009, Frankfurt, Germany

Bristol-Myers Squibb R&D Scientific Symposium November 9-10 2009, Princeton NJ, USA

ICIC 2009 18-21 October 2009, Sitges (Barcelona), Spain

Linguamatics Fall Users Conference and Training Workshops October 6-8 2009, Cambridge MA, USA
Speakers:

• William Hayes, Director, R&D IT, Biogen Idec
• Wei Liu, Associate Director, Systems Biology Analytics, Wyeth
• Raul Rodriguez-Estaban, Senior Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim
• Jagruti Patel, Senior Information Scientist, Research Information Management, Wyeth

Linguamatics Spring Users Conference and Training Workshops May 12-14 2009, Cambridge, UK
Speakers:

• Ian Harrow, Senior Principal Scientist, eBiology Group, Pfizer
• James Weatherall, Clinical Biomedical Informatics Scientist, AstraZeneca
• Ralf Jaeger, Information Science, F. Hoffmann - La Roche
• Richard Williams, Senior Scientist, Lhasa

Search Engine Meeting 27-28 April 2009, Boston, MA, USA

David Milward, CTO at Linguamatics, will be presenting "Accessible knowledge discovery using agile natural language-based text mining". This presentation will review the challenges faced by the pharmaceutical industry and other knowledge-intensive industries in answering business-critical questions using diverse text resources. He will discuss a selection of case studies where an NLP-based approach for discovering relevant facts and relationships from unstructured text is delivering significant value - both in terms of improved productivity and in discovering new knowledge by combining information extracted from different sources.

Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2009 27-29 April 2009, Boston, MA, USA

"Unlocking Toxicity Data for Structure-Activity Modeling By Semi-Automated Extraction from Study Reports"

Many of the results obtained from toxicity tests are stored in study report documents that cannot be easily interrogated to allow toxicity modeling, such as the creation of structure-activity relationships. Fully manual extraction of structured data, including numerical values, is time consuming and expensive. This collaboration between Pfizer, Linguamatics and Lhasa has resulted in a semi-automated method which involves text mining based on natural language processing (NLP), followed by interactive curation. This talk will provide attendees an understanding of how NLP-based text mining can unlock value in legacy safety studies to support current decision-making.

Nigel Greene, Ph.D., Associate Research Fellow & Head of Computational Toxicology, Pfizer
David Milward, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, Linguamatics

Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference 2009 25-27 February 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA

New Horizons in Toxicity Prediction 8-9 December 2008, Cambridge, UK

Pharma-Bio-Med 2008 2-5 November 2008, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Sarah McQuay, Application Specialist at Linguamatics presented the poster, "Early Identification of Potential Drug Safety Issues from Diverse Literature Resources"

ICIC 2008 19-22 October 2008, Nice, France

Linguamatics Fall Users Conference: Intelligent Answers to Drive Business Decisions October 7-9 2008, Cambridge, MA
Speakers:

• Katya Mantrova (Biogen Idec)
• Stuart Murray (Wyeth)
• Elgar Pichler (AstraZeneca)
• Phoebe M. Roberts (Pfizer)
• Raul Rodriguez-Esteban (Pfizer)

Beyond Genome 2008 8-11 June 2008, San Francisco, CA.

Linguamatics Users Conference 14-15 May 2008
Speakers:

• Guillemette Duchateau-Nguyen (Roche)
• Ian Harrow and Rob Hernandez (Pfizer)
• Ian Dix and Iain McKendrick (AstraZeneca)

Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2008 28-30 April 2008, Boston, MA

Society of Toxicology 47th Annual Meeting (SOT 2008) 16-20 March 2008, Seattle, WA

C-Shals 2008 5-7 March 2008, Boston, MA

Pharma-Bio-Med 11-14 November 2007, Athens, Greece

ICIC 2007 21-24 October 2007, Sitges (Barcelona), Spain

Linguamatics Users Conference 18-19 October 2007
Speakers:

• David de Graaf (Pfizer)
• William Hayes (Biogen Idec)
• Aafia Chaudhry (Medical Knowledge Group)
• Kathryn Lavengood (Eli Lilly)
• Michael McGlashen (Pfizer)
• Julia Kozlovsky (AstraZeneca)

ERBI's 9th Annual BioPartnering Exchange Event 2007 27-29 June, Cambridge, UK

World Pharmaceutical Congress 12-13 June, Philadelphia, USA - Booth 105

Beyond Genome 2007 21-22 June, San Francisco, USA - Booth 310

2007 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 30 April - 2 May, Boston

The European Text Analytics Summit 2007 26-27 April, Amsterdam
Linguamatics CTO David Milward spoke on "Getting Value out of Text Mining in Pharma Biotech" in association with AstraZeneca.

TACBAC 07: Therapeutic Applications of Computational Biology and Chemistry 2007, 11-13 March, Hinxton