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The sixth HEXAnord meeting, Zakopane January 31-February 3, 2012
The sixth HEXAnord meeting took place in Zakopane, Poland, with participants from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Lithuania, Estonia and France. The three-day meeting included lectures and discussions on annotation, machine learning, medical terminology and natural language processing. Our invited speaker Dr. Frédérique Segond, from Objet Direct, Grenoble, France presented the ALADIN project. The goal with…
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Visit at UC San Diego, January 2012
I visited associate professor Wendy Chapman and her research group at iDash at the Division for Biomedical Informatics, UC San Diego, Supercomputing Center in La Jolla, as part of the Interlock collaboration. We discussed the possibility of sharing and releasing clinical textual data for research. One concrete problem discussed with Dr. Lucila Ohno-Machado (Founding Chief) is that the…
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Busital 2012
Once again DSV has a stake in the organisation of the International Workshop on Business/IT-Alignment and Interoperability (Busital). The workshop is held in conjuction with the 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’12) in Gdańsk, Poland, 25 – 29 June 2012. Please consider publishing your research reports at Busital!
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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…
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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…