Category: SYSLAB
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Sumithra Velupillai defended her PhD-thesis successfully
Sumithra Velupillai defended her PhD-thesis with the title Shades of Certainty – Annotation and Classification of Swedish Medical Records, on April 27, 2012, with great success. The opponent was associate professor Sabine Bergler, from University of Concordia, Montreal, Canada. Congratulations Dr. Velupillai! Read more about Dr. Velupillais research in Swedish here.
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Three papers to LREC 2012 in Istanbul
The Healthcare analytics and modeling group had three papers accepted to LREC 2012 in Istanbul and to the Third Workshop on Building and Evaluating Resources for Biomedical Text Mining (BioTxtM 2012) held in conjunction with LREC 2012. The accepted papers are: – Pseudonymisation of personal names and other PHIs in an annotated clinical Swedish corpus…
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13th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics
Sumithra Velupillai attended the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2012) at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, March 11-17. At CICLing 2012, Sumithra presented the paper Fine–grained Certainty Level Annotations Used for Coarser-grained E-health Scenarios — Certainty Classification of Diagnostic Statements in Swedish Clinical Text, co-written…
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Edephonce Nfuka’s PhD Dissertation
On February 24, 2012 our colleague Edephonce Nfuka, PhD student at DSV/Stockholm University has defended successfully his doctoral thesis entitled: “IT Governance in Tanzanian Public Sector Organizations”. The link to his PhD thesis in DiVA at Stockholm University is the following: http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?searchId=1&pid=diva2:481199 On behalf of research group in IT Management I would like to congratulate…
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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!