Category: Health Informatics
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IT for Health Seminar – Miguel Ballesteros: Enhancing and Applying Dependency Analysis in Different Topics: Negation, Speculation and Text Simplification
Today we had an invited guest Miguel Ballesteros, from the Department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence at Universidad de Complutense, Madrid, that is visiting the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University for a research stay this fall. Miguel talked about dependency parsing of clinical and biomedical scientific text to infer the scope of negation and speculation by traversing…
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Hideyuki Tanushi, new employee
Hi! My name is Hideyuki Tanushi, and I have been working as a programmer for a project of the IT for Health research group since the beginning of this month. Here is a short introduction of myself and the project I am engaged in. Originally, I studied Linguistics at Stockholm University and wrote a bachelor…
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IS-seminarie Experience reuse … the missing link? : Peter Funk
Peter Funk professor at Mälardalens högskola, Västerås, visited us today and held an IS-seminar. Peter is a former student at DSV, that worked at Ellemtel, Ericsson, and took his PhD at Edinburgh University in Scotland in Artificial Intelligence. Peter talked about his different projects at Mälardalens högskola that is tight connected to Robotdalen, that is…
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Fifth HEXAnord meeting Åland September 21-23, 2011
We carried out the fifth HEXAnord meeting in Åland September 21-23, 2011. We were 22 participants from Scandinavia, USA and UK. The theme of this meeting was “Pragmatics of using, representing and accessing clinical text and information” and was organized by Øystein Nytrø, from NTNU, Trondheim, Norway but the lectures were the senior particiapants. The theme…
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Research visit at NICTA, Australia
I have been invited to NICTA, National Institute for Information and Communications Technology, Melbourne and Canberra, Australia to work on a collaborative project together with Dr. Hanna Suominen and Dr. David Martinez. We are working with clinical text mining of invasive fungal infections, together with a physician from the Alfred Health Hospital in Melbourne. This…
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Forthcoming Book on E-Health Communities
“E-Health Communities and Online Self-Help Groups: Applications and Usage” is the name of the book expected to be launched by IGI Global in October 2011. It is edited by me, and it is concerned with self-help groups and health issues of many different kinds, presented by authors from around the world. It covers self-help groups…
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AIME conference in Bled
Our research group, IT for Health, was very well represented at the AIME conference (Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2-6 July, 2011). This year the conference was located at the idyllic village Bled in Slovenia. At the main conference, Aron Henriksson presented his, Martin Hassel’s and Mia Kvist’s paper: “Diagnosis Code Assignment Support Using Random Indexing…
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IS-Seminar: Making Natural Language Processing (NLP) More Accessible for Analysis of Clinical Text: Wendy Chapman
Welcome to our next IS-seminar: Making Natural Language Processing (NLP) More Accessible for Analysis of Clinical Text with Dr. Wendy Chapman from University of California, San Diego. When: Wednesday June 8th 12.00-13.00 Where: 6405A Forum 100 DSV/Stockholm University, Kista Abstract In spite of decades of research in NLP, applications for clinical text have not yet…