PhD thesis

Irena Spasic. (2004) "A machine learning approach to term classification." PhD Thesis, School of Computing, Science and Engineering, The University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester, UK

• Title page
• Contents
• List of tables
• List of figures
• Acknowledgement
• Declaration
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Terms and Terminology
• Chapter 2: Terminology Structuring
• Chapter 3: Introduction to Case-Based Reasoning
• Chapter 4: Methodology of Case-Based Reasoning
• Chapter 5: System for Machine Supported Term Classification
• Chapter 6: Case-Base for Term Classification
• Chapter 7: Case Comparison for Term Classification
• Chapter 8: Term Classification
• Chapter 9: MaSTerClass System Summary
• Chapter 10: Evaluation
• Chapter 11: Applications
• Conclusion
• References

Journal publications

Irena Spasic, Sophia Ananiadou and Junichi Tsujii. (2005) "MaSTerClass: a case-based reasoning system for the classification of biomedical terms," in Bioinformatics, Vol. 21, No. 11, pp. 2748-2758 [full paper]

Conference papers

Irena Spasic and Sophia Ananiadou. (2005) "A flexible measure of contextual similarity for biomedical terms," in Proceedings of Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB 2005), Hawaii, USA, pp. 197-208 [full paper]

Presentations

Irena Spasic. (2005) "Term associations: from ontologies to text mining and back," a tutorial presented at the 19th International Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (MIE 2005), Workshop on Terminologies and Ontologies in Biomedicine: Can Text Mining Help?, Geneva, Switzerland [ppt] [pdf]

Irena Spasic. (2005) "A flexible term similarity measure as a basis for intelligent mining of biomedical literature," a talk given at Data and Decision Engineering Group, School of Informatics, University of Manchester, UK [ppt]