NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING LAB

2017

• Congratulations Clint Cuffy, Jeffrey Smith and Jennifer Fore for their presentations at the Dean's Undergraduate Research Symposium. With a Special Congratulations to Clint Cuffy for winning second place which was a prize of $200!!
Congratulations 2nd place winner Clint Cuffy! Congratulations Jennifer Fore on her awesome presentation! Congratulations Jeffrey Smith on his awesome presentation!

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• Congratulations Abigail Byram and Andriy Mulyar for winning the 2018 VCU Dean's Undergraduate Research Initiative (DURI)!!

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• Congratulation Ali Senhaji on his internship presentation for his research on document classification for the Framework for Nanotechnology Discovery. Ali worked in the lab Spring-Summer of 2017! Stay tuned for a paper describing his work!
  
  Ali also won the Erasmus+ Scholarship study at the University of Eastern Finland next semester (Spring 2018).


Way to go Ali!!

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• Congratulations Brandon Watts on winning Cap Tech Best Use of Natural Language Processing award at Ram Hacks!! Go read about his development of a Natural Live Polling application to identify relevant information from twitter and predict information about the population and try it out on his GitHub site!

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• Congratulations Sam Henry and Amy Olex on their VCU Travel Grant Award to present their research at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Conference! Read about their research here:
  • Semantic association for literature based discovery. Sam Henry and Bridget McInnes. In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association. November 2017.
  • Linking Term Association: ranking implicit terms in literature-based discovery. Sam Henry. In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Graduate Student NLP-WG Workshop. November 2017.
  • Parsing MetaMap Files in Hadoop. Amy Olex, Albert Cano and Bridget McInnes. In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association. November 2017.

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• 26 September 2017: Dr. McInnes will be speaking at the Women Building Bio Conference with Dr. Lewinski and Dean Boyan on Next Generation Inspiration: Leadership, pass it on.

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• Congratulations Sam Henry on his paper Literature Based Discovery: models, methods and trends being accepted to the Journal of Biomedical Informatics!

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• NLP@VCU has two papers accepted to BioNLP year! Congratulations Sam Henry and Clint Cuffy!
• Evaluating Feature Extraction Methods for Knowledge-based Biomedical Word Sense Disambiguation. Sam Henry, Clint Cuffy and Bridget McInnes. In Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP) at the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2017.
• Improving Correlation with Human Judgments by Integrating Semantic Similarity with Second--Order Vectors. Bridget McInnes and Ted Pedersen. In Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP) at the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2017.

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• Congratulations Megan Charity for being one of four (out of thirteen) to win the NAACL Scholarship to attend the 2017 Annual Jelinek Memorial Summer School on Speech And Language Technology being held at Carnegie Mellon University Language Technologies Institute!

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• Congratulations Alex Mcquilkin (and his graduate student mentor Sam Henry) for winning third place in the 2017 Virginia Junior Academy Science Annual Research Symposium for math, Statistics, and Computer Science category!

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• Congratulations Alex Mcquilkin and Henry Roberts for the Dean's Early Initiative (DERI) presentations!

Congratulations Alex Mcquilkin and his Graduate Student mentor Sam Henry! Congratulations Henry Roberts!

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• Congratulations Graduating NLPers: Edwin Lobo, Rashed Rashed, Josh Ramer, Kyle Ellis, Payal Shah and Jordan Tang!
VIP Team Members: Edwin Lobo and Rashed Rashed Capstone Team Members: Kyle Ellis and Payal Shah

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• Congratulations Sam Henry for winning the School of Engineering Graduate Teaching Award!

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• Congratulations Clint Cuffy on winning an Undergraduate Research Summer Fellowship for his proposal on Identifying relations in biomedical text for literature-based discovery!

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• Congratulations to the Backlog Boys and Girls of the CIT for their awesome presentation on the VCU Biomedical Visualization Project. You can see their presentation here. Stay tuned for the release of their system!
Thank you Nick, Grant, Jocelyn, George, Reece, Luke, Amelia, and Jack!

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• Congratulations to the 2017 Capstone and VIP Nanoinformatics Teams for their presentations at the VCU Senior Design Expo!

• Congratulations Kyle Ellis, Payal Shah and Jordan Tang! You can read more about their project here!

• Congratulations Yilong Wang, Megan Charity, Jasmine Norman, Ali Senhaji, Jeffrey Smith and Clint Cuffy! You can read more about the VIP Nanoinformatics team here and here!

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• Congratulations Sam Henry on being awarded the Computer Science Teaching Assistant of the year two years in a row!

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• The VCU NLP lab has three posters accepted at the VCU Undergraduate Research Symposium!

• Congratulations Clint Cuffy on his UROP Symposium poster!

• Congratulations Megan Charity on her UROP Symposium poster!

• Congratulations Josh Ramer on his UROP Symposium poster!

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• Congratulations Megan Charity on her CAPWIC poster presentation!

2016

• NanoNLP in Engineering Weekly! See the full article here!

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• Congratulations Sam Henry on finishing his PhD Preliminary Examination!

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• Congratulations Sam Henry on his abstract "Semantic Relatedness for Literature Based Discovery" being accepted to the American Medical Informatics Association Graduate Student Consortium!

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• Congratulations Sam Henry on presenting his SemEval 2016 publication!

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• Congratulations Gabby Jones for giving an impressive presentation at the 2016 DERI symposium!

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• Congratulations Marley Hodson, Tanin Izadi, Ivan Jimenez, Ryan Murphy, Gabrielle Jones, Bridget McInnes and Nastassja Lewinski for their abstract being accepted at the 2016 nanoTOX conference!

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• Congratulations Gerard Briones, Ellen Korcovelos, Ryan Murphy and Keith Herbert for presenting their research at the VCU Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 20, 2016!

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• The VCU NLP Lab had three SemEval 2016 papers accepted this year! Congratulations Gerard Briones and Sam Henry!
• VCU-TSA at Semeval-2016 Task 4: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter. Gerard Briones, Kasun Amarasinghe and Bridget McInnes.
• VRep at Semeval-2016 Task 1 and Task 2: A System for Interpretable Semantic Similarity. Sam Henry and Allison Sands.
• VCU at Semeval-2016 Task 14: Evaluating Similarity Measures for Semantic Taxonomy Enrichment. Bridget McInnes.

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• Congratulations Ellen Korcovelos for her poster being accepted at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC)! You can see Ellen's abstract here.

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• Congratulations Sam Henry on being awarded the Computer Science Teaching Assistant of the year! Here is the VCU NLP Lab celebrating with Sam!

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• Congratulations Ellen Korcovelos and Megan Davis for their first place finishes at the CAPWIC 2016 poster competition and flash talk! You can see Ellen's poster here and view Megan's flash talk here.

2015

• Ellen Korcovelos presented her work on the Prediction of Lexical Anomalies (POLA) at the VCU Fall 2015 Undergraduate Research Symposium! You can see her poster here.

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• Initial Release of the Hermitage Technical Center High school students' Summerisation Of Unstructured Papers (SOUP) software package!
• Inaugural release of the UMLS-Association package!

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• UMLS-Similarity v1.45 released with new measures added!
• UMLS-Interface v1.43 released!

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• Dr. McInnes gave a talk at the Department of Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University.

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• Dr. McInnes gave a talk at the Hermitage Technical Center to computer science high school students.

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• New semantic similarity paper!

2014

• New semantic similarity paper!

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• UMLS-Similarity v1.41 released!

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• UMLS-Interface v1.41 released!