Author Archives: Hercules

About Hercules

I am a professor working at DSV-Stockholm University, I perform research in natural language processing and information retrieval, the last ten years I have been working on text mining on electronic patient records to build useful tools to improve health. Hercules homepage

Job: PhD student in Computer and Systems Sciences with focus on Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing of Healthcare Data

Deep learning based on various neural network architectures has seen tremendous success in recent years, substantially outperforming alternative learning approaches in fields such as natural language processing. By learning abstract representations through multiple processing layers, the learning task can be … Continue reading

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Three research application in Health Informatics are funded!

Three research applications from the IS unit researchers have been approved. The applications were all sent to the Stockholm County Council (SLL) – Stockholm University Call in October 2017. KVALPA: What quality indicators in the patient journal’s free text are … Continue reading

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Norwegian Center for E-health Research, Tromsø, 22 Nov 2017

I was invited to the Norwegian Center for E-health Research (Nasjonalt senter for e-helseforskning),  in Tromsø, north Norway to be part of the Workshop on health analytics: using language technology and machine learning on clinical text. There were over 25 … Continue reading

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RANLP 2017, 2-8 September, Varna Bulgaria

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Rebecka and I participated at RANLP 2017 in Varna Bulgaria, 2-8 September 2017. RANLP stands for Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. RANLP has been active för 28 years, starting as a summer school. This time there were around 100 … Continue reading

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Sabbatical stay at CSIRO and Macquarie University, Sydney Australia

Now I am here at my nine months sabbatical stay at CSIRO and Macquarie University in the Sydney suburb North Ryde. I have a office at CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation). CSIRO has many locations in Australia and … Continue reading

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*DSV 50 år* – Artificiell intelligens för analys av patientjournaler – öppet jubileumsseminarium

Välbesökt jubileumsseminarium om Artificiell intelligens för analys av patientjournaler den 9 sept 2016, av professorerna Henrik Boström och Hercules Dalianis. Över 40 deltagare från industri, sjukvård, forskning lyssnade och ställde frågor som ledde till en spänstig dialog om framtidens system för … Continue reading

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Deep learning to predict healthcare-associated infections – Poster presentation in Berlin

Olof Jacobsson presented a poster co-written with Hercules Dalianis with the title Applying deep learning on electronic health records in Swedish to predict healthcare-associated infections, at 15th Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, BioNLP 2016 that was held in conjunction with ACL … Continue reading

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Automatic mapping SNOMED to ICD-10

Petter Andersson and Amanda Sjöberg defended their master thesis with the title Generating and evaluating an automatic mapping between SNOMED-CT and the Swedish extension codes of ICD-10 based on lexical similarities, PDF, successfully on May 30, 2016! Congratulations!

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