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Hercules Dalianis, Martin Hassel, Aron Henriksson, Maria Skeppstedt and Sidrat ul Muntaha attended the Fourth Swedish Language Technology Conference in Lund, October 25-26. Research in language technology, mainly on the Swedish language, was presented as oral presentations or as posters. There were a number of contributions about text simplification and text summarisation.

We presented two posters: “Entity Recognition of Pharmaceutical Drugs in Swedish Clinical Text”, which was the result of the one-year master student Sidrat’s master thesis (co-authors for the conference paper were Maria Skeppstedt, Maria Kvist and Hercules Dalianis), and “Stockholm EPR Corpus – A Clinical Database Used to Improve Health Care” by Hercules Dalianis, Martin Hassel, Aron Henriksson and Maria Skeppstedt.

To remember from the conference dinner was not only the good food, but also the entertainment, which consisted of two musicians taking us to different parts of the world with their music, as well as playing violin while simultaneously dancing Halling.

The next SLTC conference will be organised by Stockholm University.

Sidrat and Maria at their poster

Sidrat, Aron and Maria at the conference dinner

Hercules, Martin and their poster

25 Post doc positions at Stockholm University

October 24, 2012 Hercules Health Informatics

25 Post doc positions at Stockholm University

Deadline December 17, 2012.

For some possible areas in Language Technology and Health Informatics

Two posters at CLEF eHealth, Rome, 17-20 September 2012

September 24, 2012 sumithra Health Informatics, SYSLAB

Mattias Kanhov and Sumithra Velupillai attended and presented two posters at the CLEF eHealth workshop organized at the CLEF conference in Rome, 17 – 20 September 2012.

Mattias presented work about his and his fellow student Xuefeng Feng’s master theses, supervised by prof. Hercules Dalianis, in the poster Natural Language Generation from SNOMED Specifications. Sumithra presented results from the one-year master student Niklas Isenius work on abbreviation detection from Swedish clinical records, co-supervised with Dr. Maria Kvist, in the poster Initial Results in the Development of SCAN: a Swedish Clinical Abbreviation Normalizer.

The conference and workshop was very interesting and Mattias and Sumithra had the opportunity to meet prominent researchers in the area of eHealth and Information Access evaluation from perspectives of multilinguality, multimodality and visual analytics, in the beautiful city of Rome.

Mattias Kanhov with Karl Kreiner from Austria

Final HEXAnord meeting Copenhagen 12-14 Sept 2012

September 20, 2012 Hercules Health Informatics, SYSLAB

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 from IT University of Copenhagen, that talked about visualization of lab-processes in a health care domain and Lars Juhl Jensen that talked about the Reflex Text mining tool for molecules in scientific journals. Moreover three of our hosts Peter Jensen, Lars Juhl Jensen and Søren Brunak had a review article in Nature (May 2012) with the title Mining electronic health records: towards better research applications and clinical care. That shows the potential of our research area, therefore we were inspired to extend our network to an European COST-network that we are applying for now. We finalized our meeting with a visit at Copenhagen Tivoli.

ICML 2012 in Edinburgh

July 4, 2012 Aron Henriksson Health Informatics, Information Systems, SYSLAB

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 records by means of active learning by Henrik Boström and Hercules Dalianis

The workshop brought together researchers in machine learning, natural language processing and medical informatics who are trying to exploit the availability of large amounts of clinical data in order to improve disease detection, chronic disease management, design of clinical trials and other aspects of health care.

Clinical NLP workshop, June 21st 2012

July 3, 2012 sumithra Health Informatics, SYSLAB

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 a very nice and successful day, thanks to all!

Workshop participants

Hanna Suominen’s presentation and participation over Skype

Mike Conway’s presentation

Danielle Mowery’s presentation

Brian Chapman’s presentation

Wendy Chapman’s presentation

Dimitrios Kokkinakis’ presentation

Maria Kvist’s presentation

Laura Slaughter and Øystein

Hans Moen’s presentation

Dinner cruise to Waxholm in the evening

: A beautiful evening

LREC 2012 in Istanbul

June 4, 2012 Alyaa Alfalahi Health Informatics, Information Systems, SYSLAB

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 oral presentation. LREC had 1 200 participants and almost 700 accepted posters and oral presentations all of them published in the Proceedings. If you want a short summary of the conference please ask us for the conference report that we have compiled in Swedish.
Except of the conference we saw Hagia Sophia, the Blue mosque (Sultan Ahmet Camii), and Dancing Dervishes in the 1001 Column Cistern in this beautiful city.