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.

Publications

Journal papers

Tara McIntosh and James R. Curran. Challenges for automatically extracting molecular interactions from full-text articles. BMC Bioinformatics, vol. 10, no. 311, September, 2009 Pubmed

Tara McIntosh and Sanjay Chawla. High Confidence Rule Mining for Microarray Analysis. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 4, no. 4, pages 611-623, Oct-Dec, 2007. PDF

Conference papers

Tara McIntosh and James R. Curran. Reducing Semantic Drift with Bagging and Distributional Similarity. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 2009.

Tara McIntosh and James R. Curran. Weighted Mutual Exclusion Bootstrapping for Domain Independent Lexicon and Template Acquisition. In Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop, Hobart, Australia, 2008 Best Presentation Award. PDF

Tara McIntosh and James R. Curran. Sentence retrieval for extracting biomedical knowledge. In Proceedings of the Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING), pages 342-349, Melbourne, Australia, 2007. PDF

Tara McIntosh and James R. Curran. Challenges for extracting biomedical knowledge from full text. In Proceedings of the Workshop on BioNLP (BioNLP), pages 171-178 , Prague, Czech Republic, 2007. PDF

Tara Murphy, Tara McIntosh, and James R. Curran. Named entity recognition for astronomy literature. In Australasian Language Technology Workshop, pages 59-66, Sydney, Australia, 2006.

Tara McIntosh and Sanjay Chawla. On discovery of maximal confident rules without support pruning in microarray data. In 5th ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD '05), Chicago, IL, 2005.

Sonia Cattley, Tara McIntosh, Tim Littlejohn, and Frank Nicolas. An overview of formal bioinformatic degrees in Australia. In International Conference on Bioinformatics '02, Bangkok, 2002.

Sonia Cattley, Tara McIntosh, and Tim Littlejohn. Bioinformatic education avenues in Australia. In ComBio, Canberra, Australia, 2002.