Author Archives: Maria Skeppstedt

EACL 2014

The Clinical Text Mining Group was very active at the EACL conference (14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics) in Göteborg, organising the Louhi 2014 workshop (as described in a previous blog post) and presenting … Continue reading

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Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM 2013)

I attended the 5th international symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM 2013), held at Tokyo University. There, I presented the paper “Vocabulary Expansion by Semantic Extraction of Medical Terms” by Maria Skeppstedt, Magnus Ahltorp and Aron Henriksson. The … Continue reading

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ACL 2013, Sofia

The clinical text mining group had three papers at workshops of this years ACL conference in Sofia. We had two papers at the BioNLP workshop (“Corpus-Driven Terminology Development: Populating Swedish SNOMED CT with Synonyms Extracted from Electronic Health Records” by … Continue reading

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NoDaLiDa Conference 2013

Hideyuki Tanushi presented the paper “Negation Scope Delimitation in Clinical Text Using Three Approaches: NegEx, PyConTextNLP and SynNeg” at NoDaLiDa 2013, the 19th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, which was held in Oslo this time. Co-authors to the paper by … Continue reading

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IS-seminar: Jörg Tiedemann about Machine Translation for Under-Resourced Languages and Domains

Last week, Jörg Tiedemann gave an IS-seminar on “Machine Translation for Under-Resourced Languages and Domains”. Jörg Tiedemann is a visiting Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University, doing research in parallel corpora and machine translation. He … Continue reading

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Southern California Workshop on Medical Text Analysis and Visualization

Aron Henriksson and Maria Skeppstedt presented at the Southern California Workshop on Medical Text Analysis and Visualization during their visit at the Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of California, San Diego. There were many interesting presentations at the workshop, which … Continue reading

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Fourth Swedish Language Technology Conference, SLTC 2012

Hercules Dalianis, Martin Hassel, Aron Henriksson, Maria Skeppstedt and Sidrat ul Muntaha attended the Fourth Swedish Language Technology Conference in Lund, October 25-26. Research in language technology, mainly on the Swedish language, was presented as oral presentations or as posters. … Continue reading

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A visit at the Department of medical informatics at Hokkaido University

I visited the Department of medical informatics at School of medicine, Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. The topics of their research range from telemedicine to hospital management. They also do research that is very close to what is done in … Continue reading

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