Category: Health Informatics
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Louhi 2014: The Fifth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis
The Clinical Text Mining group at DSV organised the 5th Louhi workshop in conjunction with EACL on a beautiful sunny day (April 27) in Gothenburg. The program consisted of an invited talk by Prof. Sophia Ananiadou from NacTem in Manchester, nine long paper presentations and a poster session. The workshop proceedings can be found here: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W14/#1100 Thank you…
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Visiting UCSD and University of Utah
Aron Henriksson spent two weeks in April at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), continuing his ongoing collaboration with Dr. Mike Conway, who is currently at the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. A small project was initiated that aims to develop techniques for detecting signals of adverse drug events (ADEs) in Twitter streams,…
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Prof Sophia Ananiadou: Integrating and ranking the evidence from pathways to text
Invited speaker professor Sophia Ananiadou hold a talk with the title Integrating and ranking the evidence from pathways to text, on Friday 25. She described her system, for mapping events, genes, interactions described in natural language in biomedical literature into a formal structure that can be used for faceted information retrieval. Professor Sophia Ananiadou is director…
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Workshop: By Dan Csontos: How to publish in top ranked scientific journals
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in ACT, BPM and Enterprise Modeling, Consumer-oriented Mobile Services, Digital Games, Digital Systems Security, E-government, Health Informatics, ICT4D, IDEAL, Immersive Participation, Information Systems, Interaction Design, IT Management, Knowledge and Communication, Risk and Decision Analysis, SAS, Service Science, SYSLAB, TEL, TEL and Collaboration40 participants at Dr. Dan Csontos’ Workshop, PhD-students, and PhDs, all enthusiastic. Good discussions on how to get your paper through the editor’s gate with elegantly formulated cover letters. If that does not work – appeal if necessary. Moreover we discussed how to write informative titles, smart abstracts, and well structured papers and obtain the…
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Two research visits – New York and Boston
Sumithra Velupillai traveled to the northeastern US coast on February 18-21 for two research visits. In New York, she visited Noemie Elhadad and her group at the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, and in Boston, she visited Guergana Savova and her group at the Natural Language Processing Lab, Childrens Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School.…
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Research Visit at CIMeC, University of Trento
Aron Henriksson visited the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento in Rovereto, Italy for two weeks in the first half of February. The Language, Interaction and Computation Labs (CLIC) has an ongoing 5-year ERC project to study Compositional Operations in Semantic Space (COMPOSES), led by associate professor Marco Baroni. Meetings were held…
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Kick-off for the Nordic Center of Excellence on January 17
The Nordic Information for Action e-Science Center of Excellence (see photo of group) had a Kick-off at Karolinska Institutet January 17, where all team leaders met and scheduled some of the activities for the coming 5 years. NIASC will organize and fund PhD- and Post doc positions as well as PhD training school within E-sciences in…
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Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM 2013)
I attended the 5th international symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM 2013), held at Tokyo University. There, I presented the paper “Vocabulary Expansion by Semantic Extraction of Medical Terms” by Maria Skeppstedt, Magnus Ahltorp and Aron Henriksson. The paper was a result of the work conducted during my internship at the Language Media…