Category: SYSLAB
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The Fourth International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM 2011)
Sumithra Velupillai attended The Fourth International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM 2011) at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, December 14-15. At LBM 2011, Sumithra presented the paper Automatic Classification of Factuality Levels – A Case Study on Swedish Diagnoses and the Impact of Local Context. In this paper, The Stockholm EPR…
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Anayanci Lopez Poveda’s Licentiate Seminar
On December 9, 2011 our colleague Anayanci Lopez Poveda has defended successfully her Licentiate Thesis named: “Towards a framework for analyzing IT strategy management in public sector”. On behalf of research group in IT Management I would like to congratulate Anayanci for her achievement. Some pictures from the seminar and after the seminar are included…
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Comparing certainty level annotations in clinical NLP: a case study on Swedish and English within the Interlock project
On the recent return from her research visit to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Sumithra Velupillai presented the results of a comparative study of certainty-level annotations in clinical NLP written in Swedish and English respectively. The research visit took place within the Interlock project – a collaboration between the IT for Health group…
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Research visit within the Interlock project at DBMI, UCSD
Sumithra is visiting Dr. Wendy Chapman and Danielle Mowery at the Division for Biomedical Informatics at UC San Diego during November within the Interlock-project. Sumithra and Danielle have been working on a qualitative, comparative study on models and characterizations of uncertainties and negations in annotated clinical documentation in both English and Swedish electronic patient records.…
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A visit at the Department of medical informatics at Hokkaido University
I visited the Department of medical informatics at School of medicine, Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. The topics of their research range from telemedicine to hospital management. They also do research that is very close to what is done in the IT for Health group at DSV, that is research on natural language processing of…
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Global Forum 2011 Shaping the future, Bryssel
Global Forum 2011 Shaping the future, är en konferens som har pågått i 20 år i Europa och i USA, första gången i Washington DC 1992 och nu i Bryssel. Det är en sorts think-thank, tankesmedja inom ICT med mestadels företagsledare, investerare, politiker, jurister, lobbyister, forskare. Här i Bryssel är det cirka 300 deltagare. Könsfördelningen…
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SSF-research proposal accepted = 19 MSEK!!
The research proposal with the title High-Performance Data Mining for Drug Effect Detection to SSF were accepted encompassing 19 MSEK and 5 years. Project leader is professor Henrik Boström at DSV. One part of the project concerns text mining of clinical texts that the research group within IT for Health will carry out, for details about…
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Guest researcher at SYSLAB – prof. Janis Grabis
Prof. Janis Grabis from Riga Technical University, Latvia is visiting DSV during November-December. We are jointly working on a new EU project proposal in the area of Enterprise Modelling and Model Driven Development methods and tools for cloud applications and services. From right Janis Grabis, Martin Henkel, and Janis Stirna