Tara McIntosh

For WMEB paper at ALTW 2008: Weighted Mutual Exclusion Bootstrapping for Domain Independent Lexicon and Template Acquisition.

I was awarded an Australian Bicentennial Award to study at the University of Edinburgh for 3 months in 2007.

My honours work was published in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.

In 2006, I attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. I now know what it is like to be in a room with 1000 women doing computer science.

With the support of the AUC I attended Apples' WWDC in San Francisco. There was definitely no line up for the little girls room.

I'm a PhD student in the School of Information Technologies at the University of Sydney, Australia, under the supervision of James Curran and David Hawking.

I have a Bachelor of Science (Bioinformatics) (Honours) degree from the University of Sydney, majoring in advanced biochemistry and computer science. For my honours thesis I developed new Association Rule Mining algorithms for identifying gene relationships in microarrays.

I am interested in applying computational linguistics to improve biomedical information retrieval and extraction. This research is supported by a CSIRO ICT Centre postgraduate scholarship, an Australian Postgraduate Award and a Bicentennial Award.

My other interests include data mining, machine learning and developing bioinformatics software.

Curriculum Vitae.pdf