[4][5][6] Her research focusses on biomedical text mining[7] and natural language processing[1] and has fed into the development of numerous applications that, for example, facilitate the discovery of new knowledge,[8] enable exploration of historical archives,[9] allow semantic search of biomedical literature,[10] reduce human effort in screening search hits[11] for production of systematic reviews, enable enrichment of metabolic pathway models[12] with evidence from the literature, allow discovery of risk in the construction industry from health and safety incident reports[13] and enable interoperability of components in text mining workflows.

She received a Bachelor of Arts (Ptychion) from the University of Athens (1979), a Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Linguistics from Paris VII, Jussieu, France (1980), a DEA in Literature from Paris IV, Sorbonne, France (1984) and a PhD in Computational linguistics[2] from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), in 1988.

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[18] Ananiadou received a Diplôme de traducteur (Diploma of Translator) from the Institut français d'Athènes,[19] Greece (1979) and a Certificate in Counselling from the University of Salford, UK (2004).

[20] In 2019, in recognition of her contributions in Artificial Intelligence and text mining for Biomedicine, Ananiadou received an honorary doctorate from the University of the Aegean, on the 20th anniversary of its Department of Mediterranean Studies,[21] Rhodes.