Category: Health Informatics
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Presentation in Oslo, May 30th
I was invited to give a talk in a seminar series held at the Language Technology Group (LTG), Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, on May 30th. The talk was entitled Shades of Certainty — Working with Swedish Medical Records and the Stockholm EPR Corpus and was about my recent dissertation work as well as…
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Maria Skeppstedt’s Licentiate Dissertation Defense
Maria Skeppstedt defended her Licentiate thesis convincingly and successfully on May 15, 2012! The dissertation, entitled From Disorder to Order – Extracting clinical findings from unstructured text, investigates the use of rule-based techniques to extract mentions of findings (e.g. breathing problems) and disorders (e.g. asthma) from electronic health records written in Swedish, while also being able to determine whether or not…
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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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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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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…