Category: Information Systems
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Coling 2012, Bombay, India, 9-14 December
The 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Coling 2012 took place in Bombay (Mumbai) India, December 9-14. It is the largest computational linguistics conference in the world. At the conference were 600 participants from 60 countries. 1600 papers were submitted to the conference and 400 were accepted, that gives an acceptance rate of 25 percent.…
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Best Paper Award
The paper ”Capability Driven Development – an Approach to Support Evolving Organizations” written by Janis Stirna, Janis Grabis, Martin Henkel and Jelena Zdravkovic has been awarded for being among the best papers in the Practice of Enterprise Modelling (PoEM) conference 2012. The paper describes how the concepts of goals, key performance indicators, capabilities, capability context…
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IS-Seminar: Service Science and Innovation Centre (SSI) presented their work
Andreas Nilsson and Elin Uppström presented the Service Science and Innovation Centre (SSI). One statement they have is that 70 percent of the GDP is within services, and that services wrongly is considered to be products. They continued by presenting some of their projects as well as some of their publications, specially the project App Market, where an…
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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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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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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…
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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…