Author: Hercules
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Visit at UC San Diego, January 2012
I visited associate professor Wendy Chapman and her research group at iDash at the Division for Biomedical Informatics, UC San Diego, Supercomputing Center in La Jolla, as part of the Interlock collaboration. We discussed the possibility of sharing and releasing clinical textual data for research. One concrete problem discussed with Dr. Lucila Ohno-Machado (Founding Chief) is that the…
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Global Forum 2011 Shaping the future, Bryssel
Global Forum 2011 Shaping the future, är en konferens som har pågått i 20 år i Europa och i USA, första gången i Washington DC 1992 och nu i Bryssel. Det är en sorts think-thank, tankesmedja inom ICT med mestadels företagsledare, investerare, politiker, jurister, lobbyister, forskare. Här i Bryssel är det cirka 300 deltagare. Könsfördelningen…
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SSF-research proposal accepted = 19 MSEK!!
The research proposal with the title High-Performance Data Mining for Drug Effect Detection to SSF were accepted encompassing 19 MSEK and 5 years. Project leader is professor Henrik Boström at DSV. One part of the project concerns text mining of clinical texts that the research group within IT for Health will carry out, for details about…
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Three accepted project proposals to Vinnova’s call Utmaningsdriven innovation
Researchers at the Information systems unit submitted six research proposals to Vinnova’s “Utmaningsdriven innnovation” and got three project proposals accepted. This is a 50 percent acceptance rate, the average acceptance rate was 16 percent on this call. The accepted projects were: Öppna sociala molntjänster (Open Social Cloud Services) by Gustaf Juell-Skielse and Petia Wohed. Individanpassad paketering…
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IT for Health Seminar – Miguel Ballesteros: Enhancing and Applying Dependency Analysis in Different Topics: Negation, Speculation and Text Simplification
Today we had an invited guest Miguel Ballesteros, from the Department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence at Universidad de Complutense, Madrid, that is visiting the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University for a research stay this fall. Miguel talked about dependency parsing of clinical and biomedical scientific text to infer the scope of negation and speculation by traversing…
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IS-seminarie Experience reuse … the missing link? : Peter Funk
Peter Funk professor at Mälardalens högskola, Västerås, visited us today and held an IS-seminar. Peter is a former student at DSV, that worked at Ellemtel, Ericsson, and took his PhD at Edinburgh University in Scotland in Artificial Intelligence. Peter talked about his different projects at Mälardalens högskola that is tight connected to Robotdalen, that is…
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Fifth HEXAnord meeting Åland September 21-23, 2011
We carried out the fifth HEXAnord meeting in Åland September 21-23, 2011. We were 22 participants from Scandinavia, USA and UK. The theme of this meeting was “Pragmatics of using, representing and accessing clinical text and information” and was organized by Øystein Nytrø, from NTNU, Trondheim, Norway but the lectures were the senior particiapants. The theme…
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IS-Seminar: Making Natural Language Processing (NLP) More Accessible for Analysis of Clinical Text: Wendy Chapman
Welcome to our next IS-seminar: Making Natural Language Processing (NLP) More Accessible for Analysis of Clinical Text with Dr. Wendy Chapman from University of California, San Diego. When: Wednesday June 8th 12.00-13.00 Where: 6405A Forum 100 DSV/Stockholm University, Kista Abstract In spite of decades of research in NLP, applications for clinical text have not yet…