The document discusses a training workshop on using text mining approaches in cancer research. The 3-day workshop covered topics like named entity recognition, natural language processing, and information extraction from biomedical literature. It was led by 7 trainers from 4 countries and involved hands-on practical sessions for the 17 student groups to work with various online and command line tools for text mining and analysis related to genes, proteins, diseases, and cancer mutations found in research papers.