Semifinalist Round

The semifinalist round of the Elsevier Grand Challenge was held 15 December, 2008 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.  It featured representatives of the nine semi-finalist teams who gave demonstrations of their tools and then discussed its application with the panel of judges and their fellow contestants. The discussion and collaborations were so successful that we've launched the meeting as the first of a series of Knowledge Enhancement in Publishing conferences.  

>> View photos from the Grand Challenge Semifinalist Presentation! 

Meet the people in the teams. Read the interviews, view photos and more...

Teams indicated with a star have made it to the finalist round!

Team		Team members	Project title
	1	Seán I. O' Donoghue, Lars Jensen, Heiki Horn, Evangelos Pafilis, Michael Kuhn, Nigel P. Brown, and Reinhard Schneider >> Meet the team	Reflect: Automated Annotation of Scientific Terms
	2	Timothy Baldwin, Lawrence Cavedon, Sarvnaz Karimi, David Martinez, David Newman, Falk Scholer and Justin Zobel >> Meet the team	Effective Search, Classification, and Visualisation of Information from Large Collections of Biomedical Literature
	3	Vıt Novacek, Tudor Groza, and Siegfried Handschuh >> Meet the team	CORAAL – Dive into Publications, Bathe in the Knowledge
	4	Amr Ahmed, Andrew Arnold, Luis Pedro Coelho, Saboor Sheikh, Eric Xing, William Cohen and Robert F. Murphy >> Meet the team	Structured Literature Image Finder
	5	Stephen Wan, Cecile Paris, Robert Dale, Michael Muthukrishna, Ilya Anisimoff and Julien Blondeau >> Meet the team	Citation Sensitive In-Browser Summarisation of Cited Documents
	6	Roderic Page >> Meet the team	Towards realising Darwin’s dream: setting the trees free
	8	Glenn Ford, Sameer Antani, Dina Demner Fushman and George Thoma >> Meet the team	Tools to build and use Interactive Publications
	9	Michael Greenacre and Trevor Hastie >> Meet the team	Guided Tours in N-Dimensional Space:  Dynamic Visualization of Multivariate Data
	10	Alexander Garcia and Alberto Labarga >> Meet the team	A tale of two cities in the land of serendipity: The semantic web and the social web heading towards a living document in life sciences.

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