Author: Maria Skeppstedt
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Global Center of Excellence Symposium Poster Session at Hokkaido University
The Global Center of Excellence Symposium poster session at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, was held October the 5th 2011. All researches from Hokkaido University that are part of this center showed their work. The language media laboratory, that I am visiting, is a part of this center and had posters on various subjects. For instance computer assisted language…
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AIME conference in Bled
Our research group, IT for Health, was very well represented at the AIME conference (Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2-6 July, 2011). This year the conference was located at the idyllic village Bled in Slovenia. At the main conference, Aron Henriksson presented his, Martin Hassel’s and Mia Kvist’s paper: “Diagnosis Code Assignment Support Using Random Indexing…
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Seminar on “Designing the secondary user experience”
On 2 March Ole Andreas Alsos gave a seminar with the title “Designing the secondary user experience”. The seminar was both about the secondary user experience in general and about a study on mobile electronic patient record systems, used by physicians in front of patients in a hospital. In that situation, the physician is the primary…
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The fourth HEXAnord meeting, Trondheim January 10-12, 2011
The fourth HEXAnord meeting took place in Trondheim in January 10-12, 2011, with participants from Lithuania, Finland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. The three-day meeting included lectures and discussions on annotation, machine learning, medical terminology, natural language processing and other topics related to analysis of clinical text. The HEXAnord group also made a study visit to…
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AMIA symposium
In November (13-17), I was in Washington at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, which is one of the largest conferences in medical informatics. The talks and posters presented at the conference covered many aspects of medical informatics and there was always at least one NLP (natural language processing) or data mining track.…
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Paper accepted to the 2nd Louhi Workshop on Text and Data Mining of Health Documents
My paper “Negation Detection in Swedish Clinical Text” has been accepted after a double blind peer-review to the 2nd Louhi Workshop on Text and Data Mining of Health Documents in L.A., June 5 2010. Later, the paper will be on my dsv-home page. A list of used Swedish negation trigger phrases can be found there already, if…
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Report from the HEXAnord network meeting in Vilnius
The 13th of January, the IT for Health group at DSV went for a three day HEXAnord network meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania. Apart from Hercules Dalianis, Martin Hassel, Sumithra Velupillai, Elin Carlsson, Helen Allvin and me from DSV, there were participants with a background in medical informatics, language technology and nursing science from Finland, Norway,…
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Maria Skeppstedt, new PhD student
Hi! I have started as a PhD student at Syslab, where I will work with text mining in health records. My supervisor will be Hercules Dalianis, and my co-supervisor will be Gunnar Nilsson. Up till now I have worked at my father’s company, Popab, which specialises in canes, crutches and their accessories, and before that…