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LREC 2012 in Istanbul

Health Informatics, Information Systems, SYSLAB

Alyaa Alfalahi, Maria Skeppstedt and Hercules Dalianis attended LREC 2012, (The Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation) and BioTxtM 2012 (Third Workshop on Building and Evaluating Resources for Biomedical Text Mining ) in Istanbul, Turkey, May 23-26, 2012 and presented the following three papers in poster sessions as well as in a short oral presentation. LREC had 1 200 participants and almost 700 accepted posters and oral presentations all of them published in the Proceedings. If you want a short summary of the conference please ask us for the conference report that we have compiled in Swedish.
Except of the conference we saw Hagia Sophia, the Blue mosque (Sultan Ahmet Camii), and Dancing Dervishes in the 1001 Column Cistern in this beautiful city.

Three papers to LREC 2012 in Istanbul

Health Informatics, Information Systems, SYSLAB

The Healthcare analytics and modeling group had three papers accepted to LREC 2012 in Istanbul and to the Third Workshop on Building and Evaluating Resources for Biomedical Text Mining (BioTxtM 2012) held in conjunction with LREC 2012.

The accepted papers are:
– Pseudonymisation of personal names and other PHIs in an annotated clinical Swedish corpus by Alyaa Alfalahi, Sara Brissman and Hercules Dalianis.
– Releasing a Swedish clinical corpus after removing all words – de-identification experiments with conditional random fields and random forests  by Hercules Dalianis and  Henrik Boström.
– Rule-based Entity Recognition and Coverage of SNOMED CT in Swedish Clinical Text by Maria Skeppstedt, Mia Kvist and Hercules Dalianis.

Maria Skeppstedt, Hercules Dalianis and me are going to Istanbul to present the papers.