Author: Martin Duneld
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Aron Henriksson’s Licentiate Dissertation Defense
Aron Henriksson convincingly defended his Licentiate thesis on October 18, 2013. The thesis, with the title Semantic Spaces of Clinical Text – Leveraging Distributional Semantics for Natural Language Processing of Electronic Health Records, investigates the applicability and utility of distributional semantics to facilitate information extraction from electronic health records. This was demonstrated in several use-cases;…
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Two papers presented at Nodalida 2011
Two papers which I have co-written was presented at the The 18th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics, Riga, Latvia, May 11–13, 2011. The conference started out as focusing on NLP for the Nordic languages but now attracts participants from a score of countries. Attending this year were 130 people from mostly Europe. The first paper,…
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Second HEXAnord Meeting, Åre 12-14 April 2010
12-14 April the IT for Health group at DSV arranged the second HEXAnord network meeting in Åre, Sweden. Apart from Hercules Dalianis, Sumithra Velupillai, Maria Skeppstedt, Elin Carlsson, Helen Allvin and me from DSV, there were participants from all participating countries (Finland, Norway, Denmark, Estonia and Lithuania) as well as visitors from Karolinska Institutet/KTH and…
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Two papers accepted at RANLP 2009
Today I recieved notification that two papers where I am one of the authors have been accepted as posters at the international conference RANLP 2009 – Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, which is in Borovets, Bulgaria in September 14-16. Apart from being an exceptionally pleasant conference, RANLP is ranked among the most influential NLP…
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Project proposal submitted to VR: VESPTEC
Today I submitted a project proposal to the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) with the title “VESPTEC – Vector space representations of textual content”. Collaborating with me on this proposal are Magnus Rosell and Viggo Kann at KTH CSC as well as Jussi Karlgren at SICS and Hercules Dalianis here at DSV. Abstract: Since the 1960s…
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DSV research group joins Human Language Technology Center
The Human Language Technology Group here at DSV has now officially joined the mid-Sweden Human Language Technology Center. The objective of the center is to facilitate collaboration in order to promote excellence in research and increase the competitiveness and visibility of the participating research groups, building on their unique combination of competence in both text…
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Seminar on three Human Language Technology research projects here at DSV
Hercules Dalianis, Sumithra Velupillai and Martin Hassel held a lunch seminar on three Human Language Technology research projects here at DSV. Hercules presented results from the project Tvärsök which aims to bridge the language gap between the Nordic countries. More specifically, if you search for documents in Swedish you should be able to find corresponding…
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Project proposal: Vector space representations of textual content
Today I handed in a project proposal to the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). Collaborating with me on this proposal are Magnus Rosell and Viggo Kann at KTH CSC as well as Magnus Sahlgren, Jussi Karlgren and Oscar Täckström at SICS. The title of the project is Vector space representations of textual content. Abstract: Since the…