Category: SYSLAB
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Final HEXAnord meeting Copenhagen 12-14 Sept 2012
Our Nordforsk funded researcher network HEXAnord had its final meeting in Copenhagen at Panum Institute where our host CBS (Center for Biological Sequence Analysis) that belongs partly to DTU and to University of Copenhagen partly is situated. 27 members of the network participated in the 7th HEXAnord meeting and we had two invited speakers; Konstantinos Pantazos…
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ICML 2012 in Edinburgh
Last week (June 26-July 1) I attended the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) in Edinburgh. At the ICML workshop on Machine Learning for Clinical Data Analysis, I presented the following two papers: Exploration of Adverse Drug Reactions in Semantic Vector Space Models of Clinical Text by Aron Henriksson, Maria Kvist, Martin Hassel and Hercules Dalianis De-identifying health…
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Clinical NLP workshop, June 21st 2012
On June 21st, 2012, we organized a one-day Clinical NLP workshop here at DSV with participants from the Interlock and HEXAnord projects. We had visitors from the US, Australia, Norway, Lithunia, Gothenburg as well as some participants from DSV. The talks were about ongoing research on Clinical NLP in the different research groups. It was…
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Papers accepted for publication in journals and in the proceedings of the 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2012), Seattle, Washington, August 9-11, 2012
In this year a number of papers written by the members of IT management group and master students at KTH (that IT management group members has supervised on their master thesis work) were accepted for publication in International Journal of Social and Organizational Dynamics in Information Technology, International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy,…
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LREC 2012 in Istanbul
Alyaa Alfalahi, Maria Skeppstedt and Hercules Dalianis attended LREC 2012, (The Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation) and BioTxtM 2012 (Third Workshop on Building and Evaluating Resources for Biomedical Text Mining ) in Istanbul, Turkey, May 23-26, 2012 and presented the following three papers in poster sessions as well as in a short…
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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…