Re: [Swarmfest2008] Abstract Submission

[Gary An]

Hi Emilia,

I am pleased to inform you that your submission has been accepted for
an oral presentation on Monday, May 12.  You will have 15 minutes for
your talk, with 5 minutes for questions.  Please be focused and
succinct with your presentation; one of the greatest benefits from
presenting at Swarmfest is the interaction with the audience.  Please
also note that there is a deadline for receiving the Swarmfest special
rate at the Inn of Chicago; you must make your reservation by phone
prior to April 30.  A final program with the specific time of your talk
will be forthcoming within the week.  Please let me know if you have
any questions. See you in May!

Regards,
Gary

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Emilia <address@hidden> wrote:

Dear organizers,

Please accept the attached paper for an oral presentation at the 2008 Swarmfest.

Named Entity Recognition in Acute Inflammatory Response Studies

Emilia Apostolova, Steven Lytinen, Daniela Raicu
School of Computer Science
DePaul University
Chicago, IL
{address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden}

Abstract

This paper presents a study of the task of recognizing a specific type
of Named Entities in
medical texts describing trauma conditions. The study includes data
gathering, named
entity orthographic rule definitions, building a lexicon, and training
via a machine
learning method - Conditional Random Fields. This Named Entity
Recognition task is
viewed as the first step of information extraction of free text
clinical studies describing
shock, trauma, inflammation, and other related states. The end goal is
to build a
computer model of the acute inflammatory response using agent-based
modeling. The
goal of this agent-based model is to simulate the body response to
shock and trauma.


Thank you very much.

Emilia Apostolova

address@hidden
773-259-2818

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