*Announcing the OpenMinTED Open Tender Phase II Funding opportunity for information retrieval technology developers*
(Apologies for cross-posting) OpenMinTED (openminted.eu) Open Tender Phase II Funding Award for information retrieval, machine learning and text preprocessing technologies applied to scientific publications. Over the past years there has been a considerable accumulation of scholarly literature, which motivated the implementation of IR and text mining solutions to extract automatically valuable scientific information. The OpenMinTeD project aspires to enable the creation of an open infrastructure that facilitates the use of text mining and IR technologies in the scientific publications world, building on existing tools, and renders them interoperable through appropriate registries and a standards-based interoperability layer. OpenMintED, as part of its open tender call initiative, invites researchers, service providers and SMEs to submit proposals related to the development and integration of existing IR, text preprocessing and text mining/NLP applications or software components as well as knowledge resources that can align and interoperate with the OpenMinTeD infrastructure. *Why you should apply* *Winners of this call will be awarded € 7.000 (for small bids) or € 17.500 (for larger bids) *including VAT and expenses to implement the integration of their software or components into the OpenMinTeD infrastructure. For details on the submission process and technical support please visit the OpenMintED Open Tender call page at https://openminted.bsc.es/ *You can apply for this call until 26th January 2018*. Winners of the call will be awarded a sum of money to implement their plans. For informal inquires please contact, Montserrat Marimon Felipe montserrat.mari...@gmail.com Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación, Life Sciences Department, Barcelona 08034, Spain