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• Academic Curriculum Vitae
• Computational Linguistics
• Linguistics and Computer Standardization
• Others

• Linguistic String Project
• LSP Publications
• LSP Selected Publications
• String Program Reports

• Glasgow Royal Infirmary
• Massachussetts General Hospital - Epilepsy Clinic
• Mayo Clinic
• Louvain Test

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Last edited January 22, 1998

RESEARCH PAPERS

1. Resolution of Noun Phrase Anaphora, with R Grishman, presented at the Linguistic Society of America ACL 1981 Annual Meeting, New York. (December 1981)

2. Tuning Natural Language Grammars for New Domains, with R Grishman and E Marsh. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Intelligent Systems and Machines, Rochester, Michigan. (April 1984)

3. Automated determination of sublanguage syntactic usage, with R Grishman, E Marsh and L Hirschman. In: Proceedings of COLING 84 (Tenth International Conference of Computational Linguistics), Stanford, California. (July 1984)

4. Model-based analysis of messages about equipment, with R Grishman and T Ksiezyk. PROTEUS Project Memorandum No. 2, NYU Computer Department Technical Report No. 236. (April 1986)

5. Discovery procedures for sublanguage selectional patterns: Initial experiments, with R Grishman and L Hirschman. Computational Linguistics 12.3: 205-215. (July 1986)

6. Adapting a Medical Language Processor from English to French, with N Sager, M Lyman, LJ Tick, F Borst, C Reveillard, Su-Yun and J-R Scherrer, MEDINFO89: Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Medical Informatics. Elsevier Science Publishers B.F., North Holland. (1989)

7. Cost Containment and Quality of Care Assessment: By-Product of a Fully Integrated HIS Handling Free Text Analysis of Discharge Summaries, with F Borst, N Sager, M Lyman, LJ Tick, C Reveillard, Su-Yun and J-R Scherrer. Poster presentation MEDINFO89. (1989)

8. Medical Language Processing for Knowledge Representation and Retrievals, with M Lyman, N Sager, EC Chi, LJ Tick, Su-Yun, F Borst and J-R Scherrer. In: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC13), LC Kingsland, ed. IEEE Computer Society Press, Washington, D.C., pp. 548-553. (1989)

9. Analyse Automatique de Comptes Rendus d'Hospitalisation, with F Borst, N Sager, Su-Yun, M Lyman, LJ Tick, C Reveillard, EC Chi et J-R Scherrer. In: Informatique et Santé, Informatique et Gestion des Unités de Soins, Comptes Rendus du Colloque AIM-IF, Paris, 1989, P Degoulet, J-C Stephan, A Venot et P-J Yvon, Rédacteurs. Paris, Springer-Verlag, pp. 246-256. (1989)

10. A Medical Language Processor for Two Indo-European Languages, with N Sager, M Lyman, LJ Tick, F Borst and Su-Yun. In: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Symposium on Computer Application in Medical Care (SCAMC13), LC Kingsland, ed. IEEE Computer Society Press, Washington, D.C., pp. 554-558. (1989)

11. The Application of Natural-Language Processing to Healthcare Quality Assessment, with M Lyman, N Sager, LJ Tick, F Borst and J-R Scherrer. In: Medical Decisioning Making 11, #4 Supplement, pp. S65-S68. (1991)

12. TEXTINFO: A Tool For Automatic Determination of Patient Clinical Profiles Using Text Analysis, with F Borst, M Lyman, LJ Tick, N Sager and J-R Scherrer. In: Proceedings of the 15th Annual Symposium on Computer Applications of Medical Care (SCAMC15), McGraw Hill. (November 1991)

13. Clinical Knowledge Bases From Natural Language Patient Documents, with N Sager, M Lyman, LJ Tick, F Borst and J-R Scherrer, in MEDINFO 92, Proceedings of the Seventh World Congress on Medical Informatics, ed. by KC Lun et al., Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., North-Holland. Pp. 1375-1381. (September 1992)

14. Natural Language Processing of Asthma Discharge Summaries for the Monitoring of Patient Care, with N Sager, M Lyman, LJ Tick and C Bucknall. In: Proceedings of the 17th Annual Symposium on Computer Applications of Medical Care (SCAMC17), Washington, D.C., Oct 30-Nov 3, pp. 265-268. (November 1993)

15. Natural language processing and the representation of clinical data, with N Sager, M Lyman, C Bucknall and L J Tick. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 1.2 (3-4.1994):144-160. Hanley & Belfus, Inc. (March 1994)

16. Medical Language Processing: Applications to Patient Data Representation and Automatic Encoding, with N Sager, M Lyman and LJ Tick. Paper presented at the Conference of the International Medical Informatics Association, Working Group 6 (IMIA WG 6), Geneva, Switzerland, May 29-June 1, 1994. To appear in Methods of Information in Medicine (1995).

17. Automatic encoding into SNOMED III: A preliminary investigation, with N Sager, M Lyman and LJ Tick. In: Proceedings of the 18th Annual Symposium on Computer Applications of Medical Care (SCAMC18), Washington, D.C. Nov. 5-9, 1994, pp. 230-234. Hanley & Belfus, Inc.

18. Computer analysis of clinical narrative: why, how, what, when, with N Sager, M Lyman and LJ Tick. Paper presented at The Symposium on "Language and Voice Technology in HealthCare", MEDI Working Group of the BIRA (Belgisch Institut voor Regeltechniek en Automatisering). Gent, Belgium, Feb 22, 1995.

19. Medical text: Linguistic resources with SGML display, with N Sager, M Lyman and LJ Tick. Paper in preparation for the 19th Annual Symposium on Computer Applications of Medical Care (SCAMC19), Washington, D.C. Nov. 1995.

20. A model for distributed vocabulary translation, with Christopher Cimino (Computer Based Education, Albert Einstein College of Medicine), Jiri Schindler, Peter Szolovits (Clinical Decision Making Group, MIT) and Isaac Kohane (Boston Children's Hospital Informatics Program). Poster presentation, JAMIA: Proceedings of the 1996 AMIA Annual Fall Symposium (Washington, DC. Oct 26-30, 1996. Hanley & Belfus. P. 837.

21. Language processing and mark-up technology in medicine: an experiment applied to Dutch, with Peter Spyns (Division of Medical Informatics, University Hospital Gent, Belgium), Eric Baert, Naomi Sager and Georges De Moor. Paper presented at the Congress of the Belgian Association for Medical Informatics, Belgium. June 1996.

22. Medical Language Processing with SGML display, with Naomi Sager, Margaret Lyman and Leo J Tick. JAMIA: Proceedings of the 1996 AMIA Annual Fall Symposium (Washington, DC. Oct 26-30, 1996. Hanley & Belfus. Pp. 547-551.

23. Dutch sublanguage semantic tagging combined with markup technology, with Peter Spyns, Naomi Sager, Eric Baert and Georges De Moor (Division of Medical Informatics, University Hospital Gent, Belgium). Presented at the Fifth Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP'97). Washington, DC, March 31-April 3, 1997.

24. Medical Language Processing applied to extract clinical information from Dutch medical documents, with Peter Spyns, Naomi Sager, Eric Baert and Georges De Moor (Division of Medical Informatics, University Hospital Gent, Belgium). Prepared for the 1998 Conference on Medical Informatics (MEDINFO'98).