Natural Language Processing Symposium
Wednesday December 13th, 2017
1pm -5pm,
Boston University Instructional Building.
72 East Concord Street, Location L112
The CTSI is delighted to host the Natural Language Processing Symposium. Join us and our distinguished panel of speakers for a symposium on Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning at BU. Learn how we may incorporate these methods into future studies in EMR database.
Agenda
Welcome and Opening Remarks
1:00 PM
Karen Antman, MD
Provost, Boston University Medical Campus
Dean, School of Medicine
Boston University
1:15 PM
Key Note Speaker
Peter Szolovits, PhD
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interpreting clinical narratives: From linguistic understanding to neural network modeling
2:05 PM
Azer Bestavros, PhD
Professor and former Chair of BU Computer Science
Boston University
Overview of institute research at the nexus of data science and AI
2:25 PM
Brian Kulis, PhD
Assistant Professor of Electrical Computer Engineering
Boston University
Rich models for unsupervised learning
2:40 PM
Katherine Liao, MD, MPH
Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
NLP for the hard to reach places in clinical research
3:15 PM
Bill Adams, MD
Professor, Pediatrics
Boston University
Clinical research informatics activities at the BU-CTSI
3:30 PM
Kate Saenko, PhD
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Boston University
Machine learning for vision and language understanding
3:50 PM
Guergana Savova, PhD
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor, Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital
Select applications of natural language processing in biomedicine
4:20 pm
Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH
Dean, School of Public Health
Boston University
Using Systems Science To Identify What Matters In Population Health
This symposium is sponsored by:
Wing Tat Lee Endowment- Supports collaborations between BUSM faculty and faculty at a mainland Chinese university (with preference for Hong Kong). The cooperative programs may include training faculty from either institution; holding seminars, workshops and symposia; and carrying out research projects of common interest.
Symposium Committee: David Felson, MD, MPH, Shanshan Sheehy, ScD, Sharon Tomlinson, Anne Plunket and Tracy Keane.
NLP Seminar Presented 8/16/17 by:
Sheng Yu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Tsinghua University