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Theodora Zarmpou, a prior EMIS student (2006-2008), got accepted to present a scientific paper, initially done as her Master Thesis in DSV, at the 4th The Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, MCIS 2009. The thesis work ended up in a publication with the title: Data migration between web content management systems, conducted in cooperation with associate professor Hercules Dalianis and Professor Maro Vlachopoulou (University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece).

Bart Jongejan and I presented our paper with the title Automatic training of lemmatization rules that handle morphological changes in pre-, in- and suffixes alike (pdf) at ACL-IJCNLP 2009, in Singapore.

The ACL-IJCNLP 2009 conference is an international conference but of course most of the 500 participants came from Asia.

Bart obtained some questions and suggestions from Ulf Hermjakob and Eduard Hovy both from University of California/ISI.

After the presentation Bart and Hercules relaxed with a Singapore Sling at Raffles Hotel.

There is always an ACL-disco at the ACL-conferences.

After the disco one needs to get the feet treated by doctor fishes.

In Singapore they are VERY fond of the durian fruit.

and there are also BIG fruit bats.

Next year ACL-2010 will take place in Uppsala Stockholm.

The HEXAnord-HEalth teXt Analysis network in the Nordic and Baltic countries signed today!

The research network that is funded by Norfa (Nordic council) obtained funding for three years. The partners in addition to DSV/KTH-Stockholm University are the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTU, the Danish Technical University, DTU, University of Turku, Finland, University of Tartu, Estonia and Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. The aim of the network is to construct synthetic patient records for the development and evaluation of textmining tools to be used on real electronic health records as well as give PhD-courses in the area of clinical text mining.

A group of researchers and PhD-students met in Åre, Sweden to write an application for a research network. We aim to get funding for the HEalth teXt Analysis network in the Nordic and Baltic countries (HEXAnord), for constructing synthetic patient records for the development and evaluation of textmining tools for medical health records.We will also apply for research training courses. The funder is Nordforsk, Nordic council. The applicants came from the Human language technology group, Martin Hassel, Sumithra and Hercules SYSLAB, DSV, Øystein Nytrø, Laura Slaughter and Karen Marie Lyng the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTU and Fransisco Roque, the Danish Technical University, DTU. Other involved partners are University of Turku, Finland, University of Tartu, Estonia and Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania.

Click here for Åre photo album

The article with the title Using Uplug and SiteSeeker to construct a cross language search engine for Scandinavian has been accepted for presentation at the 17th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2009) 15-16 maj, Odense, Denmark. The authors are Hercules Dalianis, Martin Rimka and Viggo Kann from CSC/KTH.

The paper will be posted when camera-ready.

The paper Automatic training of lemmatization rules that handle morphological changes in pre-, in- and suffixes alike written by Bart Jongejan, CST University of Copenhagen and Hercules Dalianis was accepted to ACL-IJCNLP 2009,Singapore. Out of 571 valid submissions only 121 were accepted, which gives an acceptance rate of 21%.

Talk by Amarin Deemagarn, Sign Language processing and Intelligent Multimedia system group, Department of Computer Engineering, Prince of Songkla University, Phuket Campus, Thailand.

1. Speech Interface for Querying Tourism Information

2. Assistive software for hearing disability people (The E-Leaning System for Learning Thai Sign Language)