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  • 14th Annual Workshop of The Australasian Language Technology Association – ALTA

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    Rebecka and Hercules participated in this years edition of ALTA at Monash University in Melbourne on the 5th to the 7th of December 2016. Rebecka gave a presentation on text mining of pathology reports and Hercules gave an invited talk with the title HEALTH BANK: A Workbench for Data Science Applications in Healthcare. ALTA included…

  • SLTC 2016

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    Last week I went to Umeå to take part in the Swedish Language Technology Conference,  SLTC 2016. I presented a poster with the title: A Sentiment model for Swedish with automatically created training data and handlers for language specific traits, based on the master thesis by Michelle Ludovici. She has created a model for Swedish sentiment analysis…

  • CoNLL – The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning

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    I attended the CoNLL conference in Beijing July 30-31, which is organized by SIGNLL (the ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning). CoNLL had shallow discourse parsing as a shared task and in total 29 long and 9 short papers were presented. I presented a paper based on my master thesis called Linking entities…

  • Rebecka Weegar, new employee

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    My name is Rebecka Weegar and I’ve recently started as a PhD student in the Clinical Text Mining Group here at DSV. My supervisors are professor Hercules Dalianis at DSV and professor Søren Brunak at DTU, Technical University of Denmark. My area will be text mining, and my aim is to find cancer symptoms and…