Category: SYSLAB
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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…
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The EnRiMa project successfully completed the second review
The EnRiMa project partners gathered in Brussels 29-30 May to have the projects second review meeting. During the review meeting the prototype of the EnRiMa decisions support system was demonstrated for the reviewers. It was demonstrated how the system based on information about a building, such as existing heating equipment and inner volumes, could calculate…
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Two scholarships to Aron Henriksson
Aron Henriksson obtained two scholarships, Donationsstipendier from Stockholms universitet (John Söderberg) and Google grant to participate at two different summer schools! Congratulation Aron!
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NoDaLiDa Conference 2013
Hideyuki Tanushi presented the paper “Negation Scope Delimitation in Clinical Text Using Three Approaches: NegEx, PyConTextNLP and SynNeg” at NoDaLiDa 2013, the 19th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, which was held in Oslo this time. Co-authors to the paper by Hideyuki were Hercules Dalianis, Martin Duneld, Maria Kvist, Maria Skeppstedt and Sumithra Velupillai. The paper…