[nlpatumd] internships and post-docs in medical NLP at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

The medical informatics group at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN mainly focuses on text mining, including medical literature mining, medical information retrieval and extractions from MedLINE (a literature database and search engine run by NIH) citations and from electronic medical records of Mayo

[nlpatumd] Advice for Future MS Thesis Students

These are just a a few notes for new CS graduate students who are working with me on their MS thesis research, or would like to do so. Your most important first step will be to take CS 5761, Introduction to Natural Language Processing, in the Fall semester of your first year. This class is

[nlpatumd] NAACL CLPsych workshop 2015

I'll also be at the CLPsych workshop next Friday (June 5) and will present a very short paper on my shared task entry - the task was to identify Twitter users who might suffer from depression or PTSD. The expanded name of the workshop is Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology, which has

[nlpatumd] Text::Similarity version 0.11 released (bug fix release)

We are pleased to announce the release of version 0.11 of Text::Similarity. This includes a few fixes and corrections supplied by users (which we are always most grateful for!). You can download the new version from CPAN or sourceforge via links found at http://text-similarity.sourceforge.net.

[nlpatumd] video on Zipf's Law

Thanks to Bridget for sharing this video with me. It's a very nice explanation of Zipf's Law... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCn8zs912OE

[nlpatumd] (modest) update of WordNet::Similarity in the works

A very modest update to WordNet::Similarity is in the works, and will largely focus on resolving some smaller issues that have been reported over the last few years. We haven't had a new release since 2008, so I fear I might have forgotten some previous bugs, suggestions, etc. BTW, the most

[nlpatumd] WordNet::Similarity version 2.07 released (bug fix release)

A new version of WordNet::Similarity is available that corrects a few small but important problems. Those changes are summarized below. The new version is 2.07 and is available via CPAN and Sourceforge via links found at http://wn-similarity.sourceforge.net. I am certainly interested in other bug

Re: [nlpatumd] UMD Theater event tonight

Here is a review that appeared in the Duluth Morning News about the UMD production : *The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence *- UMD Theatre *Watson Intelligence is an Entertaining Puzzlement* Sheryl Jensen Duluth News Tribune November 20, 2016 UMD’s current production, *The (curious case