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The XLDB Research Team at LaSIGE is hosted by the Departament of Informatics, of the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences.

Announcements

2009-10-20: Geo-Net-PT 02, the second version of the Geographic Ontology of Portugal is now available for download.

Research Lines

Research at XLDB addresses topics in geographic information retrieval, text mining and natural language processing, web archiving and search, information visualisation, and biomedical informatics, organized under two of LASIGE's research lines:

Biomedical Informatics: investigates problems related to biological, clinical and epidemiological data management. The current focus is on biomedical ontologies, genomic and proteomic data mining and natural language processing of the biomedical literature.

Active projects:

ARN: Algorithms for the Identification of Genetic Regulatory Networks
BOA: Biomedical Ontologies Applications
CoherenZy: Methods for Carbohydrate Enzyme Family Coherency Assessment
EPIWork: Developing the framework for an epidemic forecast infrastructure
FiBRE: Filtering Bioentity Recognition Errors
ISPD: Information Systems for Pulmonary Diseases
ThermInfo: Collecting and presenting thermochemical properties

Information Management: investigates data processing problems with a focus on systems for data analyses, information integration and user access to large quantities of complex data from heterogeneous platforms. Current research topics span geographic information retrieval, text mining and natural language processing, web archiving and search, and information visualization.

Active Projects:

CIDS: Citation Impact Discerning Self-citations
FOGOS: Decision support tools for integrating fire and forest management planning
FTH-Grid: Fault-Tolerant Hierarchical Grid Scheduling
GeoVis: Visualization of Geo-referenced Information
GReaSE: Geographic reasoning for search engines
OPTIMISM: Opinion text mining from social meshes