VCU NLP Lab: Dr. Bridget McInnes

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My research has primarily been in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) with a particular interest in semantics, the process of analyzing the meaning of text. Specific areas of interest include:

Knowledge-based method to determine the meaning of ambiguous biomedical terms. Department of Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2015.
Right Arm and Right Atrium: How to distinguish between the two. Institute of Heath Informatics Seminar Series, University of Minnesota, 2011.
Supervised and knowledge-based methods for disambiguating terms in Biomedical Text. Thomson-Reuters, Eagan, MN. September 2009.
Representing Meaning in Unsupervised WSD. Bridget T. McInnes. National Library of Medicine's Brown Bag Series. September 2008.
Incorporating N-gram Statitsics in the Normalization of Clinical Notes, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. August 2003.

Measuring the Similarity and Relatedness of Concepts in the Medical Domain : IHI 2012 Tutorial Overview. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI), January 2012.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA)
Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI)
American Chapter of the National Association of Computational Linguistics (NAACL)
International Workshop on Biomedical Data Mining, Modeling, and Semantic Integration: A Promising Approach to Solving Unmet Medical Needs (BDM2I)

Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven MT and Beyond

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING LAB