Category: Data and Text Mining
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Thomas Vakili – Congrats för scholarship to Universidad de Chile!
Congratulations for the Phd stipend from the PhD Visiting Program 2023 from Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) at the University of Chile, (Universidad de Chile) in Santiago, Chile. This will make it possible for Thomas Vakili to visit the center during three months the fall of 2023 and work with privacy preserving methods for Chilean patient records jointly…
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Early sepsis detection – Best paper award – ICTAI 2022
The 34th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence was held virtually from 31s of October to the 2nd of November. With Aron Henriksson and in collaboration with Karolinska Institutet we presented our paper “Improving the Timeliness of Early Prediction Models for Sepsis through Utility Optimization” and we are very happy to announce that we…
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Master thesis presentation at SHI 2022, Tromsø
Alexander Dolk presented his and Hjalmar Davidsen master thesis in form of a scientific paper with the title Evaluation of LIME and SHAP in Explaining Automatic ICD-10 Classifications of Swedish Gastrointestinal Discharge Summaries at the 18th Scandinavian Conference on Health Informatics, SHI 2022, 22-23 Aug, 2022 i Tromsø, Norway, both supervisor Thomas Vakili and I were also…
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LREC 2022 in Marseille, France
The 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022) was held in Marseille, France with over 1000 participants. Four of us from DSV were there to present our recent findings and learn about the state of the NLP field. Anastasios Lamproudis, Aron Henriksson, Hercules Dalianis and I (Thomas Vakili) had a total of four papers…
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Paper at ACL 2022 workshop: BioNLP
I had the pleasure of presenting a poster of a paper by Hercules Dalianis and me: Utility Preservation of Clinical Text After De-Identification. The paper investigates how automatic de-identification, a necessarily imperfect process, impacts the quality of the resulting texts. When a de-identification system incorrectly class a word as sensitive, the data will be slightly…
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AAAI Fall Symposium and EMNLP – November 2021
Professor Hercules Dalianis and I got a paper about the privacy preserving qualities of BERT accepted to the AAAI Fall Symposium on Human Partnership with Medical Artificial Intelligence! The paper is titled Are Clinical BERT Models Privacy Preserving? The Difficulty of Extracting Patient-Condition Associations. Our results strongly suggest that BERT’s poor generative capabilities makes it…
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DSV at the First ClinCode Conference in Tromsø, Norway
Professor Hercules Dalianis, Sonja Remmer and myself represented DSV at the First ClinCode Conference. The conference gathered experts in medicine and computer science from across the Nordics and took place at the University Hospital of North Norway (UNN) in Tromsø. The conference was chaired by Hercules, who is also a guest professor at the Norwegian…
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2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018)
Hello everyone. I hope you are all fine and enjoying this beautiful winter. 🙂 Recently I have attended the EMNLP 2018 conference. It was held in Brussels, Belgium at the city center from 31 October to 04 November. Just a few statistics about the conference, EMNLP 2018 had 14 workshops, six tutorials, three invited speakers,…