Category: Unit
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Presentation in Oslo, May 30th
I was invited to give a talk in a seminar series held at the Language Technology Group (LTG), Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, on May 30th. The talk was entitled Shades of Certainty — Working with Swedish Medical Records and the Stockholm EPR Corpus and was about my recent dissertation work as well as…
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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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Sumithra Velupillai defended her PhD-thesis successfully
Sumithra Velupillai defended her PhD-thesis with the title Shades of Certainty – Annotation and Classification of Swedish Medical Records, on April 27, 2012, with great success. The opponent was associate professor Sabine Bergler, from University of Concordia, Montreal, Canada. Congratulations Dr. Velupillai! Read more about Dr. Velupillais research in Swedish here.
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Three papers to LREC 2012 in Istanbul
The Healthcare analytics and modeling group had three papers accepted to LREC 2012 in Istanbul and to the Third Workshop on Building and Evaluating Resources for Biomedical Text Mining (BioTxtM 2012) held in conjunction with LREC 2012. The accepted papers are: – Pseudonymisation of personal names and other PHIs in an annotated clinical Swedish corpus…
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13th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics
Sumithra Velupillai attended the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2012) at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, March 11-17. At CICLing 2012, Sumithra presented the paper Fine–grained Certainty Level Annotations Used for Coarser-grained E-health Scenarios — Certainty Classification of Diagnostic Statements in Swedish Clinical Text, co-written…
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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…