Category: Event
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Visiting UCSD and University of Utah
Aron Henriksson spent two weeks in April at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), continuing his ongoing collaboration with Dr. Mike Conway, who is currently at the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. A small project was initiated that aims to develop techniques for detecting signals of adverse drug events (ADEs) in Twitter streams,…
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Prof Sophia Ananiadou: Integrating and ranking the evidence from pathways to text
Invited speaker professor Sophia Ananiadou hold a talk with the title Integrating and ranking the evidence from pathways to text, on Friday 25. She described her system, for mapping events, genes, interactions described in natural language in biomedical literature into a formal structure that can be used for faceted information retrieval. Professor Sophia Ananiadou is director…
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Papers accepted for publication in international journals
A paper written by Parisa Aasi, Lazar Rusu and Shengnan Han (Stockholm University, Sweden), entitled: “Culture Influence on IT Governance: What We Have Learned “ has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance (IJITBAG), IGI Global. The IJITBAG (http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-business-alignment-governance/1136) is a journal that publishes leading research that focuses on…
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Two research visits – New York and Boston
Sumithra Velupillai traveled to the northeastern US coast on February 18-21 for two research visits. In New York, she visited Noemie Elhadad and her group at the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, and in Boston, she visited Guergana Savova and her group at the Natural Language Processing Lab, Childrens Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School.…
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Research Visit at CIMeC, University of Trento
Aron Henriksson visited the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento in Rovereto, Italy for two weeks in the first half of February. The Language, Interaction and Computation Labs (CLIC) has an ongoing 5-year ERC project to study Compositional Operations in Semantic Space (COMPOSES), led by associate professor Marco Baroni. Meetings were held…
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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 paper was a result of the work conducted during my internship at the Language Media…
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Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2013) in Washington DC
Sumithra Velupillai and Aron Henriksson attended the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in Washington DC (Nov. 17-20). The AMIA symposium is the main medical informatics event in the US, with participants from all states, and around the world, with participants from all continents – there were well over 2,000 participants in…
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New book in German on Enterprise Modeling
Kurt Sandkuhl, Matthias Wißotzki, Janis Stirna, Unternehmensmodellierung: Grundlagen, Methode und Praktiken, Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-31093-5, available on SpringerLink