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The Fourth International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM 2011)

Sumithra Velupillai attended The Fourth International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM 2011) at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, December 14-15. At LBM 2011, Sumithra presented the paper Automatic Classification of Factuality Levels – A Case Study … Continue reading

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Research visit within the Interlock project at DBMI, UCSD

Sumithra is visiting Dr. Wendy Chapman and Danielle Mowery at the Division for Biomedical Informatics at UC San Diego during November within the Interlock-project. Sumithra and Danielle have been working on a qualitative, comparative study on models and characterizations of … Continue reading

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Research visit at NICTA, Australia

I have been invited to NICTA, National Institute for Information and Communications Technology, Melbourne and Canberra, Australia to work on a collaborative project together with Dr. Hanna Suominen and Dr. David Martinez. We are working with clinical text mining of … Continue reading

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SYSLAB seminar series: Analyzing the Integration between Requirements and Models in Model Driven Development, held by Iyad Zikra

On Wednesday, May 4th 2011, the SYSLAB seminar series was held by Iyad Zikra, entitled Analyzing the Integration between Requirements and Models in Model Driven Development. Iyad presented a survey on the state of the art of the relationship between requirements … Continue reading

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Paper accepted to the XXIII International Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (MIE 2011)

The paper Factuality Levels of Diagnoses in Swedish Clinical Text which I’ve written together with Hercules Dalianis and Maria Kvist has been accepted to the XXIII International Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (MIE 2011), which will be … Continue reading

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CIKM ’10 and 3rd ESAIR

October 27th-30th, I attended the 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’10), and the Third Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR 2010), in Toronto, Canada. The CIKM ’10 conference had over 600 participants from all … Continue reading

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Joint article: HEXAnord at the 2nd Louhi Workshop on Text and Data Mining of Health Documents in L.A., June 5 2010

Within the HEXAnord network, a joint article has been written where Finnish and Swedish Intensive Care Unit nursing notes have been analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively. The article, Characteristics and Analysis of Finnish and Swedish Clinical Intensive Care Nursing Narratives, was submitted and accepted after a double blind peer-review process to the… Continue reading

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Paper accepted to the 7th international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)

The paper How Certain are Clinical Assessments? Annotating Swedish Clinical Text for (Un)certainties, Speculations and Negations which I’ve written together with Hercules Dalianis has been accepted to the seventh international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), which will be held in Valetta, Malta 19th–21th May 2010 The experiments described in the paper have been part of the… Continue reading

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