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Manabu Torii
Research assistant professor
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
< last-name at-mark udel dot edu >

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Dissertation (2005)
Torii, M. "Investigation of Term Classification with Applications to Sortal Anaphora Resolution in the Biology Domain." Thesis, 2005. Advisor: Dr. Vijay K. Shanker

Selected Publications
Torii, M., Wagholikar, K., Liu, H., "Using machine learning for concept extraction on clinical documents from multiple data sources." J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011; 18:580-587

Wang, J., Torii, M., Liu, H., Hart, G.W., Hu Z.Z., "dbOGAP - an integrated bioinformatics resource for protein O-GlcNAcylation." BMC Bioinformatics. 2011 Apr; 12(91) (PMID 21466708)

Torii, M., Yin, L., Nguyen, T., Mazumdar, C.T., Liu, H., Hartley, D.M., and Nelson, N.P. "An exploratory study of a text classification framework for Internet-based surveillance of emerging epidemics." Int J Med Inform. 2011 Jan; 80(1):56-66. (PMID 21134784)

Torii, M., Hu, Z.Z., Wu, H.T., Liu, H. "BioTagger-GM: a gene/protein name recognition system" J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2009 Mar-Apr; 16(2):247-55. (PMID 19074302)

Torii, M., and Liu, H. "At-least-N voting over biomedical named entity recognition systems." BioLINK 2008. (PDF)

Yuan, X., Hu, Z.Z., Wu, H.T., Torii, M., Narayanaswamy, M., Ravikumar, K.E., Vijay-Shanker, K, and Wu, C.H., "An online literature mining tool for protein phosphorylation." Bioinformatics, 22(13):1668-1669, 2006. (PMID 16644790)

Miller, J, Bloodgood, M., Torii, M., Vijay Shanker, K. "Rapid adaptation of POS tagging for domain specific uses." Poster presentation at the BioNLP Workshop of HLT-NAACL, 2006. (ACL Anthology)

Torii, M. and Vijay-Shanker, K. "Anaphora Resolution of Demonstrative Noun Phrases in Medline Abstracts." In proc. of PACLING 2005. pp.332-339.

Torii, M., Kamboj, S., and Vijay-Shanker, K., "Using name-internal and contextual features to classify biological terms", J Biomed Inform. 2004 Dec;37(6):498-511 (PMID 15542022)

Torii, M., Kamboj, S., and Vijay-Shanker, K., "An Investigation of Various Information Sources for classifying Biological Names", ACL 2003 Workshop on NLP in Biomedicine, pp. 113-120. (ACL Anthology)

Torii, M. and Hagan, M., "Stability of Steepest Descent with Momentum for Quadratic Functions", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol. 13, No. 3, May 2002, pp. 752 -756. (IEEE Xplore; PMID 18244471)

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