NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING LAB

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RESEARCH

This section contains information about research related to Natural Language Processing. Keep scrolling to access past and present projects.

What is NLP?
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary field that uses computational methods:
    • to investigate the properties of human language and model the cognitive mechanisms underlying the understanding and production of language
    • to develop novel practical applications involving the intelligent processing of human language by computer
Research Interests
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Nanoinformatics & NanoNLP
  • Biomedical and Clinical NLP
Current Research Projects
Literature-based Discovery identify implicit relations across scientific literature
Information Extraction extract entities and their relations from unstructured text
Word Sense Disambiguation automatically determine the correcting meaning of ambiguous words
Semantic Similarity and Relatedness quantify the degree in which two terms are related
Association Measures quantify the degree in which two terms are associated
Sentiment Analysis determine the sentiment of text
Previous Research Projects
Collocation Identification identify multi-word collocations in text
Spelling Correction correct context sensitive spelling errors
Word Alignment align words and terms in parallel text
Classification of ICD9CM Codes assign ICD9CM codes to radiology reports
Multi-label Classification of Clinical Records multi-label classification of obesity and associated co-morbidities in discharge summaries