The ZB MED PhD student will be part of the research group of Nigel Collier, Professor of Natural Language Processing and Director of Research in Computational Linguistics, from March to May 2022. Lisa Langnickel will use her time in Cambridge to advance her dissertation. To this end, she will investigate the combination of biomedical knowledge graphs with deep learning-based text mining methods for information extraction from literature data. Specifically, the robustness and lifelong learning of methods for named entity recognition of disease. 

"The research stay will definitely contribute to strengthening my personal methodological knowledge and thereby gain new insights. Working with domain experts from another research group opens up new perspectives! Prof. Collier has a lot of expertise - especially in the topic of combining Natural Language Processing with knowledge graphs. I will benefit from this during my doctorate," reports Lisa Langnickel.

The ZB MED doctoral student applied to Prof. Collier for the research stay with a concrete research question, which she will answer during her time in Cambridge. For the duration of her stay, Lisa Langnickel is a visiting student at the University of Cambridge.

Since November 2019, the junior researcher has been working at ZB MED in the research group of Prof. Juliane Fluck. The title of her dissertation is: "From hidden data and information towards data-driven research". Lisa Langnickel is also a student at the graduate school DILS (Digital Infrastructure for the Life Sciences) at the Bielefeld Institute for Bioinformatics Infrastructure, in which ZB MED is also involved.

More information about Lisa Langnickel