Category: Event
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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 uncertainties and negations in annotated clinical documentation in both English and Swedish electronic patient records.…
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A visit at the Department of medical informatics at Hokkaido University
I visited the Department of medical informatics at School of medicine, Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. The topics of their research range from telemedicine to hospital management. They also do research that is very close to what is done in the IT for Health group at DSV, that is research on natural language processing of…
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SSF-research proposal accepted = 19 MSEK!!
The research proposal with the title High-Performance Data Mining for Drug Effect Detection to SSF were accepted encompassing 19 MSEK and 5 years. Project leader is professor Henrik Boström at DSV. One part of the project concerns text mining of clinical texts that the research group within IT for Health will carry out, for details about…
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Three accepted project proposals to Vinnova’s call Utmaningsdriven innovation
Researchers at the Information systems unit submitted six research proposals to Vinnova’s “Utmaningsdriven innnovation” and got three project proposals accepted. This is a 50 percent acceptance rate, the average acceptance rate was 16 percent on this call. The accepted projects were: Öppna sociala molntjänster (Open Social Cloud Services) by Gustaf Juell-Skielse and Petia Wohed. Individanpassad paketering…
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Beviljat projekt: Automatiserat ärendestöd med språkintelligens
Under utlysningen “Utmaningsdriven innovation, Projektform A” har Vinnova beviljat finansiering till ett projekt “Automatiserat ärendestöd med språkintelligens”. Forskare inom projektet är Eriks Sneiders, Teresa Cerratto-Pargman, och Ola Knutsson. Sammanfattning: Projektet bidrar med en generiskt uthållig utvecklingsansats och strategi för automatisering av ärendestödet framförallt i offentlig förvaltning. Behov som driver utvecklingen omfattar mer serviceinriktade, interaktiva och…
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IT for Health Seminar – Miguel Ballesteros: Enhancing and Applying Dependency Analysis in Different Topics: Negation, Speculation and Text Simplification
Today we had an invited guest Miguel Ballesteros, from the Department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence at Universidad de Complutense, Madrid, that is visiting the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University for a research stay this fall. Miguel talked about dependency parsing of clinical and biomedical scientific text to infer the scope of negation and speculation by traversing…
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Hideyuki Tanushi, new employee
Hi! My name is Hideyuki Tanushi, and I have been working as a programmer for a project of the IT for Health research group since the beginning of this month. Here is a short introduction of myself and the project I am engaged in. Originally, I studied Linguistics at Stockholm University and wrote a bachelor…
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IS-seminarie Experience reuse … the missing link? : Peter Funk
Peter Funk professor at Mälardalens högskola, Västerås, visited us today and held an IS-seminar. Peter is a former student at DSV, that worked at Ellemtel, Ericsson, and took his PhD at Edinburgh University in Scotland in Artificial Intelligence. Peter talked about his different projects at Mälardalens högskola that is tight connected to Robotdalen, that is…