A team from the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) from NUI Galway has been selected as finalists in the Elsevier Grand Challenge, a competition inviting researchers to develop tools for producing more accurate search and retrieval results for its ever-increasing database of life sciences information.
Vit Novacek, Tudor Groza, Ioana Hulpus, and Siegfried Handschuh of team Knowledge Xcavator made it through the semifinalist round with their project CORAAL – Dive into Publications, Bathe in the Knowledge, at an event held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.
Elsevier Grand Challenge Finalists are invited to present their vision papers to the judges and the public in April 2009 at the Experimental Biology Conference in New Orleans. Their work will then be presented at a live webinar during which the winner will be chosen.
Discussing the nature of Knowledge Xcavator’s work to date metadata specialist Tudor Groza said: “Within our research of semantic authoring and publishing, we have been following the general vision of changing the way how science is communicated and published already for quite a long time. Another dream we have started to fulfil recently is to make the knowledge hidden in legacy unstructured resources more amenable to efficient and meaningful computer-aided exploitation.”
The first place winner will receive a cash prize of $35,000 (€25,000) and the runner up will be awarded a $15,000 (€11,300) prize.
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