Category: Unit
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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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Call for chapters to the book entitled “Modern Techniques for Successful IT Project Management”
Here is a call for chapters to the book entitled “Modern Techniques for Successful IT Project Management” (Editors: Shang Gao and Lazar Rusu) scheduled to be published by IGI Global in 2014. The book objective is to brings together the latest academic research and professional practice, covering aspects related to modern techniques for successful IT…
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Claudia Ehrentraut – new employee
Hi! Even though it has been a month since I started working here, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself to everyone at DSV. I am working as a research engineer in the Clinical Text Mining Group led by Hercules Dalianis. My current research covers Language Technology and Health Informatics in general…
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CLEFeHealth and CLEF 2013
Sumithra Velupillai attended the CLEF eHealth lab organized at the CLEF conference in Valencia, 23 – 26 September 2013. The CLEF conference “promotes the systematic evaluation of information access systems, primarily through experimentation on shared tasks”. This year, there were nine labs with different specific information access problems. Sumithra was one of the co-organizers of the CLEFeHealth lab together…
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IS-seminar: Azad Dehghan: Extracting and Modelling Clinical Pathways from Healthcare Narratives
Azad Dehghan from University of Manchester held an IS-seminar yesterday with the title: Extracting and Modelling Clinical Pathways from Healthcare Narratives. Azad works at the HECTA – Healthcare Text Analytics @ gnTEAM group. Azad presented his work on extraction of named entities using conditional random fields with a set of features. He also showed how…
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Medinfo 21-23 Aug 2013 Copenhagen
We – Mia Kvist, Sumithra Velupillai, Maria Skeppstedt, Danny Brash and I participated at SHI 2013 and Medinfo 2013 in Copenhagen. SHI 2013 is the Scandinavian Conference on Health Informatics 2013 and Medinfo 2013 is the 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics and is the largest medical informatics conference. We had three papers at SHI…
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ACL 2013, Sofia
The clinical text mining group had three papers at workshops of this years ACL conference in Sofia. We had two papers at the BioNLP workshop (“Corpus-Driven Terminology Development: Populating Swedish SNOMED CT with Synonyms Extracted from Electronic Health Records” by Aron Henriksson, Maria Skeppstedt, Maria Kvist, Martin Duneld and Mike Conway and “Adapting a parser…
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Paper accepted for publication in Journal of Global Information Technology Management (JGITM)
A paper written by Edephonce N. Nfuka (The Open University of Tanzania, Tanzania) and Lazar Rusu (Stockholm University, Sweden), entitled: “Critical Success Framework for Implementing Effective IT Governance in Tanzanian Public Sector Organizations “ has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Global Information Technology Management (JGITM), Vol.16, No. 3, July 2013, Ivy League…