Category: Profile Area
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Comparing certainty level annotations in clinical NLP: a case study on Swedish and English within the Interlock project
On the recent return from her research visit to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Sumithra Velupillai presented the results of a comparative study of certainty-level annotations in clinical NLP written in Swedish and English respectively. The research visit took place within the Interlock project – a collaboration between the IT for Health group…
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Research visit within the Interlock project at DBMI, UCSD
Sumithra is visiting Dr. Wendy Chapman and Danielle Mowery at the Division for Biomedical Informatics at UC San Diego during November within the Interlock-project. Sumithra and Danielle have been working on a qualitative, comparative study on models and characterizations of uncertainties and negations in annotated clinical documentation in both English and Swedish electronic patient records.…
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A visit at the Department of medical informatics at Hokkaido University
I visited the Department of medical informatics at School of medicine, Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. The topics of their research range from telemedicine to hospital management. They also do research that is very close to what is done in the IT for Health group at DSV, that is research on natural language processing of…
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Global Forum 2011 Shaping the future, Bryssel
Global Forum 2011 Shaping the future, är en konferens som har pågått i 20 år i Europa och i USA, första gången i Washington DC 1992 och nu i Bryssel. Det är en sorts think-thank, tankesmedja inom ICT med mestadels företagsledare, investerare, politiker, jurister, lobbyister, forskare. Här i Bryssel är det cirka 300 deltagare. Könsfördelningen…
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SSF-research proposal accepted = 19 MSEK!!
The research proposal with the title High-Performance Data Mining for Drug Effect Detection to SSF were accepted encompassing 19 MSEK and 5 years. Project leader is professor Henrik Boström at DSV. One part of the project concerns text mining of clinical texts that the research group within IT for Health will carry out, for details about…
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Global Center of Excellence Symposium Poster Session at Hokkaido University
The Global Center of Excellence Symposium poster session at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, was held October the 5th 2011. All researches from Hokkaido University that are part of this center showed their work. The language media laboratory, that I am visiting, is a part of this center and had posters on various subjects. For instance computer assisted language…
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Guest researcher at SYSLAB – prof. Janis Grabis
Prof. Janis Grabis from Riga Technical University, Latvia is visiting DSV during November-December. We are jointly working on a new EU project proposal in the area of Enterprise Modelling and Model Driven Development methods and tools for cloud applications and services. From right Janis Grabis, Martin Henkel, and Janis Stirna
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Three accepted project proposals to Vinnova’s call Utmaningsdriven innovation
Researchers at the Information systems unit submitted six research proposals to Vinnova’s “Utmaningsdriven innnovation” and got three project proposals accepted. This is a 50 percent acceptance rate, the average acceptance rate was 16 percent on this call. The accepted projects were: Öppna sociala molntjänster (Open Social Cloud Services) by Gustaf Juell-Skielse and Petia Wohed. Individanpassad paketering…