Category: SYSLAB
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Research Visit at CIMeC, University of Trento
Aron Henriksson visited the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento in Rovereto, Italy for two weeks in the first half of February. The Language, Interaction and Computation Labs (CLIC) has an ongoing 5-year ERC project to study Compositional Operations in Semantic Space (COMPOSES), led by associate professor Marco Baroni. Meetings were held…
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Kick-off for the Nordic Center of Excellence on January 17
The Nordic Information for Action e-Science Center of Excellence (see photo of group) had a Kick-off at Karolinska Institutet January 17, where all team leaders met and scheduled some of the activities for the coming 5 years. NIASC will organize and fund PhD- and Post doc positions as well as PhD training school within E-sciences in…
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Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM 2013)
I attended the 5th international symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM 2013), held at Tokyo University. There, I presented the paper “Vocabulary Expansion by Semantic Extraction of Medical Terms” by Maria Skeppstedt, Magnus Ahltorp and Aron Henriksson. The paper was a result of the work conducted during my internship at the Language Media…
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Louhi 2014 workshop organized by the Clinical Text Mining group DSV
The Louhi 2014 – The Fifth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis workshop is organized by the Clinical Text Mining group, DSV. It will take place at EACL-2014 Gothenbourg, april 27, 2014, EACL 2014, the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics is the largest conference in computational linguistics in Europe.
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New book in German on Enterprise Modeling
Kurt Sandkuhl, Matthias Wißotzki, Janis Stirna, Unternehmensmodellierung: Grundlagen, Methode und Praktiken, Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-31093-5, available on SpringerLink
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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…