Author: Aron Henriksson
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Louhi 2015 in Lisbon
DSV was well represented at the 6th edition of Louhi, the International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis, which was co-located with the EMNLP conference (Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing) in Lisbon, Portugal. Four papers by DSV were presented at the workshop: “Adverse Drug Event classification of health records using dictionary based…
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IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) in Belfast
Jing Zhao and Aron Henriksson attended the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) in Belfast, UK on November 2-5, 2014. The scientific program this year consisted of 111 papers, including two regular papers from DSV. Jing presented the paper “Detecting Adverse Drug Events with Multiple Representations of Clinical Measurements”, co-authored with Aron Henriksson,…
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Visiting UCSD and University of Utah
Aron Henriksson spent two weeks in April at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), continuing his ongoing collaboration with Dr. Mike Conway, who is currently at the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. A small project was initiated that aims to develop techniques for detecting signals of adverse drug events (ADEs) in Twitter streams,…
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Research Visit at CIMeC, University of Trento
Aron Henriksson visited the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento in Rovereto, Italy for two weeks in the first half of February. The Language, Interaction and Computation Labs (CLIC) has an ongoing 5-year ERC project to study Compositional Operations in Semantic Space (COMPOSES), led by associate professor Marco Baroni. Meetings were held…
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Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2013) in Washington DC
Sumithra Velupillai and Aron Henriksson attended the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in Washington DC (Nov. 17-20). The AMIA symposium is the main medical informatics event in the US, with participants from all states, and around the world, with participants from all continents – there were well over 2,000 participants in…
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Louhi 2013: The 4th International Workshop on Health Document Text Mining and Information Analysis
Hercules Dalianis, Sumithra Velupillai and Aron Henriksson participated in the Louhi 2013 Workshop on Health Document Text Mining and Information Analysis. This year it was hosted by NICTA in Sydney, Australia on February 11-12. Sumithra presented the paper “Porting a Rule-based Assertion Classifier for Clinical Text from English to Swedish” by Sumithra Velupillai, Maria Skeppstedt,…
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Research Visit at UC San Diego
Maria Skeppstedt and Aron Henriksson are currently visiting the Division of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) at the University of California, San Diego, which is located in the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). The visit will last for a month and is one of several exchanges between the Natural Language Processing (NLP) group at DBMI and the Clinical Text…
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ICML 2012 in Edinburgh
Last week (June 26-July 1) I attended the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) in Edinburgh. At the ICML workshop on Machine Learning for Clinical Data Analysis, I presented the following two papers: Exploration of Adverse Drug Reactions in Semantic Vector Space Models of Clinical Text by Aron Henriksson, Maria Kvist, Martin Hassel and Hercules Dalianis De-identifying health…