Mattias Kanhov and Sumithra Velupillai attended and presented two posters at the CLEF eHealth workshop organized at the CLEF conference in Rome, 17 – 20 September 2012.
Mattias presented work about his and his fellow student Xuefeng Feng’s master theses, supervised by prof. Hercules Dalianis, in the poster Natural Language Generation from SNOMED Specifications. Sumithra presented results from the one-year master student Niklas Isenius work on abbreviation detection from Swedish clinical records, co-supervised with Dr. Maria Kvist, in the poster Initial Results in the Development of SCAN: a Swedish Clinical Abbreviation Normalizer.
The conference and workshop was very interesting and Mattias and Sumithra had the opportunity to meet prominent researchers in the area of eHealth and Information Access evaluation from perspectives of multilinguality, multimodality and visual analytics, in the beautiful city of Rome.
Mattias Kanhov with Karl Kreiner from Austria