Category: Event
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Maria Skeppstedt’s Licentiate Dissertation Defense
Maria Skeppstedt defended her Licentiate thesis convincingly and successfully on May 15, 2012! The dissertation, entitled From Disorder to Order – Extracting clinical findings from unstructured text, investigates the use of rule-based techniques to extract mentions of findings (e.g. breathing problems) and disorders (e.g. asthma) from electronic health records written in Swedish, while also being able to determine whether or not…
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Research visit at the University of Vienna
Last week, I found myself in Vienna invited by Prof. Dimitris Karagiannis, head of the Knowledge and Business Engineering Research Group at the University of Vienna. During my stay there I had the chance to learn more about the OpenModels initiative, a platform-based community to build, share and reuse models openly, and get a hands-on…
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Edephonce Nfuka’s PhD Dissertation
On February 24, 2012 our colleague Edephonce Nfuka, PhD student at DSV/Stockholm University has defended successfully his doctoral thesis entitled: “IT Governance in Tanzanian Public Sector Organizations”. The link to his PhD thesis in DiVA at Stockholm University is the following: http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?searchId=1&pid=diva2:481199 On behalf of research group in IT Management I would like to congratulate…
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Reality meets academy
Reality meets academy in the courses developed by IBM, Tieto, Logica, Accenture and DSV. It is a unique partnership between these companies. The companies will give students entering the job market a clear understanding of how it is “out there”. This shortens the gap from being a student to becoming a productive coworker. See http://dsv.su.se/globalit/
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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 on Swedish Diagnoses and the Impact of Local Context. In this paper, The Stockholm EPR…
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Anayanci Lopez Poveda’s Licentiate Seminar
On December 9, 2011 our colleague Anayanci Lopez Poveda has defended successfully her Licentiate Thesis named: “Towards a framework for analyzing IT strategy management in public sector”. On behalf of research group in IT Management I would like to congratulate Anayanci for her achievement. Some pictures from the seminar and after the seminar are included…
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Comparing certainty level annotations in clinical NLP: a case study on Swedish and English within the Interlock project
On the recent return from her research visit to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Sumithra Velupillai presented the results of a comparative study of certainty-level annotations in clinical NLP written in Swedish and English respectively. The research visit took place within the Interlock project – a collaboration between the IT for Health group…