Thomas C. Rindflesch has a BA in Arabic and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Minnesota. His dissertation focused on theoretical issues concerned with enhancing the efficiency of natural language processing by exploiting information inherent in various syntactic structures. During graduate school he worked for Academic Computing Services at the University of Minnesota, advising faculty researchers on the application of computers in the humanities and social sciences. After receiving his degree he taught courses in general and computational linguistics at the University of Minnesota before joining the Lister Hill Center in 1991. He works in the Natural Language Systems Group focusing on natural language processing for accessing and managing biomedical information. His research concentrates on using the medical domain knowledge in the UMLS Metathesaurus and Semantic Network for extracting semantic knowledge from biomedical text.
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