| The project organized
an international workshop (Hvar, Croatia: September 2002)
with a select group of invited experts in medical information
access, cross-lingual information retrieval, and semantic
annotation. The purpose of the workshop was to disseminate
project results and obtain expert feedback from researchers
and potential users. Therefore, the experts invited included
researchers and developers that covered at least one of the following requirements:
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highly experienced in their research
area (i.e. medical information access, cross-lingual
information retrieval, semantic annotation)
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up to date with current technology available in
medical information access
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knowledgable representatives of relevant user
groups |
| Invited presentations were:
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The Medical Informatics Perspective |
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Wilhelm Gaus, Biometrics and Medical Documentation,
Medizinische Fakultät, Ulm University, Germany |
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Alan Rector, Medical Informatics Group, Computer
Science Department, University of Manchester, UK |
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The Medical Documentation Perspective |
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Michael Schopen, German Institute for Medical
Documentation and Information, Cologne, Germany |
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Stuart Nelson, Medical Subject Headings Section,
National Library of Medicine, NIH, USA |
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The Semantic Annotation Perspective |
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Liz Liddy, Center for NLP, School of Information
Studies, Syracuse University, USA |
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Hinrich Schuetze, Novation BioSciences Inc., USA |
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The Cross-Lingual Perspective |
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Greg Grefenstette, Clairvoyance Corporation, USA/France |
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Julio Gonzalo, NLP Group, UNED, Madrid, Spain |
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