OpenMinTeD is an EU infrastructure project that aims to establish an open and sustainable text mining infrastructure. It will bring together accessible content, discoverable text mining services, and efficient processing capabilities. This will allow researchers to collaboratively create, discover, share and reuse knowledge extracted from a wide range of scientific text sources. The project involves 16 partners from 6 countries and will run for 3 years, starting in June 2015.

1. TEXT MINING:
THE NEXT
DATA FRONTIER
An Infrastructural Approach
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An EU infrastructure Project

2. Text mining – it seems so easy:
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NLP Analysis
Entity
Recognition
Data Mining
Knowledge
Discovery
Information
Extraction
STAGE 1 STAGE 2 STAGE 3 STAGE 4
Information
Retrieval
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3. But it actually poses many
challenges…
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4. Current TDM challenges
for researchers
1. Content challenges
- Barriers and obstacles due to non-availability, technical
restrictions, copyright law or licensing issues
- No uniform way to search for, retrieve and access
content for TDM
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5. Current TDM challenges
for researchers
2. Services challenges
How to identify the most fitting TDM service? Do I have
permission to use it?
How to combine with other TDM services I have access
to? How to use them on my content?
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6. Current TDM challenges
for researchers
3. Processing challenges
Where to deploy? Are my machines powerful enough?
How can I get access to powerful machines?
Where to store intermediate and final results?
How to ensure persistence of storage?
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7. OpenMinTeD offers a
solution for all TDM
challenges:
It establishes an open and sustainable
TDM infrastructure where researchers
can collaboratively:
create, discover, share and re-use
knowledge from a wide range of text
based scientific-related sources.
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8. OpenMinTeD brings together:
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ACCESSIBLE
CONTENT
DISCOVERABLE
SERVICES
EFFICIENT
PROCESSING
TDM
COMMUNITIES
VALUE ADDED
APPS
Via standardised programmatic
interfaces and access rules
Well-documented easily
discoverable text mining services
and workflows which process,
analyse and annotate text
Operate on public e-Infrastructures
via standarized APIs
Different scientific communities
have different challenges
Community-driven applications to
illustrate the value of the
infastructure. Engage with industry.
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9. The project
Starts: June 2015
Duration: 3 years
16 Partners:
- 6 mining research groups
- 3 content providers
- 1 data center
- 1 library association
- 2 legal experts
- 6 community related partners
- 2 SMEs
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Athena RIC
Univ. of Manchester (NacTem)
Univ. of Darmstadt
INRA
EMBL-EBI
Agro-Know
LIBER
Univ. of Amsterdam
Open University UK
EPFL
CNIO
Univ. of Sheffield (GATE)
GESIS
GRNET
Frontiers
Univ. of Stirling
PARTNERS
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10. Infrastructural approach
• OpenMinted does not build new
services, but adopts and adapts
existing services for new
communities
• Focus on interoperability across text
mining services and content
providers
• Open & collaborative
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11. The OpenMinTeD landscape
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Data centre Data centre Data centre Data centre
in public cloud
Publisher text
corpus
OpenAIRE/CORE text
corpus
PMC text
corpus
Other text
corpora
Other text
corpora
Other text
corpora
Other types of text
corpora
Layer 3:
Interoperability
to shared storage and
computing resources
Language resources
Language resources
Language resources Language resources
Layer 2:
Interoperability of
language resources
& corpora
Layer 1:
Interoperability
of text mining services
(platforms or
components)
Language resources and corpora registry service
Platform services
Users: researchers, curators, text-miners and new services developers
Registry Workflow ManagementAuth2 & Policy management Annotator Accounting
Mining Platforms Mining Platforms Mining Platforms
Proprietary architectures
Mining Platforms
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Design

13. Interoperability framework
Bringing together mining tools,
resources and content:
1. Content metadata & transfer
standards
To document scientific literature, language resources,
taxonomies and provenance and to transfer protocols for
full text retrieval
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14. Interoperability framework
Bringing together mining tools,
resources and content:
2. Service metadata & pipelining
To document and classify text mining services, how they
receive input, in what form they output their resutls, how
they combine for workflows, what granularity to consider.
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15. Interoperability framework
Bringing together mining tools,
resources and content:
3. IPR and licensing
To study IPR restrictions, describe license metadata for
re-use, for content and TDM services & tools, and
information on how to apply for academic and non-
commercial mining research
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16. Working groups
1. Resource metadata: content, services,
language resources
2. Text, lexica, terminologies and
ontologies representation and access
3. IPR and licensing
4. Text annotation and text-mining services
workflows
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17. OpenMinTeD’s users
1. End users who will consume TM
services
- Researchers, data base curators, …
- Novice: use services to advance their
science
- Advanced: include TM services into
more complex research workflows (SMEs).
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18. OpenMinTeD’s users
2. Content and service providers that
will provide their content and/or TM
services for consumption
- Publishers, libraries, scientific data
base centres, etc
- TM research communities
- SMEs
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RESEARCH
ANALYTICS
SOCIAL
SCIENCES
AGRICULT
URE
LIFE
SCIENCES
Bottom-up approach
OpenMinTeD works with 4 use cases, which
give their requirements and evaluate the results.
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20. What can OpenMinTeD do
for you?
Are you a content provider?
(datacentre, library, publisher, etc)
OpenMinTeD helps you make your content
available for mining
Register your collections in the OpenMinTeD
registry, make them discoverable!
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21. What can OpenMinTeD do
for you?
Are you a TDM service?
OpenMinTeD helps you share and
collaborate with other TDM services
Register your TDM service in the
OpenMinTeD registry, make it easily
discoverable!
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22. THANK YOU!
Go to: www.openminted.eu
to get involved!
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