The paper How Certain are Clinical Assessments? Annotating Swedish Clinical Text for (Un)certainties, Speculations and Negations which I’ve written together with Hercules Dalianis has been accepted to the seventh international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), which will be held in Valetta, Malta 19th–21th May 2010 The experiments described in the paper have been part of the KEA project. The paper describes initial findings on an annotation project where clinical assessments were annotated for certain and uncertain language.
Report from the HEXAnord network meeting in Vilnius
The 13th of January, the IT for Health group at DSV went for a three day HEXAnord network meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania. Apart from Hercules Dalianis, Martin Hassel, Sumithra Velupillai, Elin Carlsson, Helen Allvin and me from DSV, there were participants with a background in medical informatics, language technology and nursing science from Finland, Norway, Denmark, Estonia and Lithuania. The meeting consisted of seminars on SNOMED CT and on Machine Learning and Clinical Text and of an excursion to the nearby castle Trakai. Most importantly, the work of comparing Swedish and Finnish health records was initialized.
The organizers of the meeting were Hercules, who was in charge of agenda, and Helen, who took care of everything else in a fantastic way. The participants seemed to be very pleased with the very well-organized
meeting, and it was decided to meet again in Åre this spring and in the Stockholm Archipelago in the autumn.
Book Project – E-Health Communities and Online Self-Help Groups: Applications and Usage
Hi,
I am in the process of editing a book entitled “E-Health Communities and Online Self-Help Groups: Applications and Usage” to be published by IGI Global (www.igi-global.com) scheduled for release in 2011. If you have ideas for a book chapter in this area, I would very much like you to contribute to the book. Or, perhaps you know someone that could be interested, who can be invited to send a chapter proposal. Call for chapters is available at http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=807.
/Åsa
Two Papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, Dubai
I have participated in a project called “Bygga Villa” with Prof. Anders Östman from Högskolan i Gävle. We have succeeded to produce two research papers from the research part of the project. The authors of the papers are:Mohamed El-Mekawy, Anders Östman, Khurram Shahzad, and the titles are:
1) Geospatial Interoperability for IFC and CityGML: Challenges of Existing Building Information Databases
2) Geospatial Integration: Preparing Building Information Database for Integration with CityGML for Decision Support
The two papers were presented at the 5th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (Innovations’08) in Dubai, UAE (16-18th, Dec, 2008) (http://www.it-innovations.ae/) and will be published in IEEE and fully indexed in IEEE Xplore.
Some pictures from the conference and social activities can be seen on my page.
Göran Goldkuhl guest professor
Göran Goldkuhl is guest professor since 1 Jan 2010. From Görans’s profile:
I am guest professor (10%) in information systems since Jan 1 2010. This is actually a comeback to both DSV and SYSLAB. I was employed at DSV 1973-1982. I got my PhD 1980 on information models. Since I left DSV 1982 I have been assistant professor at Göteborg university (1982-86), associate professor at Linköping university (1986-1996), professor at Jönköping International Business School (1996-2008) and professor at Linköping university (1999-). I am the research director of research group VITS since 1991. You can read more about my research career from early days at Stockholm university (ISAC group) via SYSLAB & research group HUMOR (in Göteborg to research group VITS (in Linköping and other universities) at http://www.vits.org/?pageId=10&pubId=600.
Conference on the History of Nordic Computing
The first and second conferences on the history of Nordic computing, organized in Trondheim (2003) and Turku (2007) respectively, were very successful and acquired a great deal of interest from information and communication technology (ICT) professionals and academics as well as from historians of technology. Therefore, these conferences will now be followed by a third one, which will take place in Stockholm, October 2010.
VMBO 2009
Paul and myself attended the 4th International Workshop on Value Modeling and Business Ontologies (VMBO 2009) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Very interesting and rewarding.
More info about it can be found at http://vmbo2009.blogs.dsv.su.se (yes, the web site is hosted by DSV).
Research trip in the U.S., November 2009
In November, I was on a research trip in the U.S., where I participated in three conferences (the AAAI Fall Symposium Virtual Healthcare Interaction (VHI) (together with Hercules Dalianis), November 5-7, Arlington, Virginia, the Third i2b2 Shared Task and Workshop, November 13, San Francisco, and American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, November 14-18, San Francisco). I also visited three departments at different universities, where I gave a seminar describing the work and research I am involved in here at DSV. During these research visits I also met researchers working in the field of Health Informatics. The departments I visited were the following: Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland (09 November), School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Kanada (12 November) and Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (19 November).
Notes and comments from the AAAI VHI symposium have been posted by Hercules Dalianis here.
I have also written some notes (in Swedish) from the rest of my trip. They can be found here.