In connection with Rune Sætre's defense, associate professor Jong C. Park from KAIST, South Korea, will give the following guest lecture: Title: Natural Language Information Service for Experts in Biology and Bioinformatics through Text Mining and Management Date: Wednesday 28 June Time: 10.15-11.00 Room: IT-454 (IT-Vest, tidligere Nye Fysikk, Lunchrom 454 i fjerde). Abstract: Our research group at KAIST has been working on providing natural language information services that are customized for users who have special concerns, such as text animation for pre-teen children, automatic generation of sign language expressions from texts for aurally challenged, emotionally appropriate speech synthesis for the elderly, and text mining and management for experts in biology and bioinformatics, all using a lexicalized grammar framework for linguistically motivated natural language processing. In particular, the current scope of our work on text mining and management includes information extraction from MEDLINE abstracts for protein-protein interaction information, semi-automatic extension of Gene Ontology with information from MEDLINE and other resources, natural language query interpretation for management of information from multiple heterogeneous databases, and visualization of information from MEDLINE for knowledge discovery, along with a few other applications. In this talk, I will introduce our general research directions for natural language information service, and describe the work on text mining and management in further detail. About the speaker: Jong C. Park has received BE and MSE in Computer Engineering from Seoul National University in Korea in 1984 and 1986, respectively, and after completing the obligatory military service in Korea, PhD in Computer & Information Science (Natural Language Processing) from the University of Pennsylvania in USA in 1996. After working at the University of Pennsylvania for two years as a postdoctoral researcher, he has joined the faculty of the Computer Science Division at KAIST in 1998, now as Associate Professor. His research interests include Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Human Computer Interaction through Language, and Bioinformatics. (amund: more about Jong C. Park: http://nlp.kaist.ac.kr/~park/ http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/p/Park:Jong_C=.htm... http://scholar.google.no/scholar?as_q=&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as... )