Natural Language Processing in the Clinical Domain
Professor Jon Patrick from the Health Information Technology Research Laboratory will discuss the deployment of natural language processing systems in the medical domain.
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March 23, 2010 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM |
| Where | Marsfield Lecture Theatre |
| Contact Name | Andrew Lampert |
| Contact Phone | 02 9372 4702 |
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Professor Jon Patrick
Health Information Technologies Research Laboratory
University of Sydney
Tuesday 23 March 2010 at 11am
Abstract
Health information Technology Research Laboratory School of IT The University of Sydney The Laboratory is developing an infrastructure to support the rapid development and deployment of NLP systems for use in the medical domain. Due to the newness of this sub-field to computational linguistics there is a great deal of content not available from classical language resources that needs to be discovered from the clinical content under study. That content then needs to be reused in the development and working systems that are useful to clinicians and hospital staff. This work is identified as a Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge Reuse (KDKR) feedback cycle. However the feedback processes occur at many levels in a complete infrastructure which has many levels of process granularity. This seminar will describe the KDKR process in some detail and present the language technology tools that have been deployed in hospitals and clinical contexts. while a production workflow for creating tailored LT tools is important for getting systems into the field, the major issues in creating appropriate interfaces for clinical applications will be presented for the audience to assess.
Short resume
Jon Patrick currently holds the Chair of Language Technology and previously held the Chair of Information Systems at the University of Sydney. In 2005 he won the Eureka Prize for his system that detected financial scams on the Internet. For the last 5 years he has concentrated on applying computational linguistics to clinical notes and building tools usable in the wards of hospitals. He also conducts research into Clinical Information systems and recently brought down the ire of the NSW Department of Health, where they sought to have his essay withdrawn from the University web site, because it described and discussed the disastrous roll-out of the clinical information system, Firstnet, to Emergency Departments across the state.
