Question Answering Experiments and Resources (2009)
Boris Katz, Gregory Marton, Sue Felshin, Daniel Loreto, Ben Lu, Federico Mora, ...
Answering track (Voorhees, 2006) explored the effects of new document retrieval and duplicate removal strategies for ‘list ’ and
Abstract Three Approaches to Automatic Assignment of ICD-9-CM Codes to Radiology Reports (2008)
Ira Goldstein, Anna Arzumtsyan, Özlem Uzuner, Ph. D
We describe and evaluate three systems for automatically predicting the ICD-9-CM codes of radiology reports from short excerpts of text. The first system benefits from an open source search engine,...
INTERNET COMPUTING, ICSI-0070-1203 1 Distribution Volume Tracking on PrivacyEnhanced (2008)
Wireless Grid Zlem, Özlem Uzuner
In this paper, we discuss a wireless grid in which users are highly mobile, and form ad-hoc and sometimes short-lived connections with other devices. As they roam through networks, the users may...
Submitted to the Engineering Systems Division (2005)
Özlem Uzuner, Randall Davis, Boris Katz, Lee W. Mcknight, Richard De Neufville, Özlem Uzuner
Using Syntactic Information to Identify Plagiarism (2005)
Özlem Uzuner, Boris Katz, Thade Nahnsen
Using keyword overlaps to identify plagiarism can result in many false negatives and positives: substitution of synonyms for each other reduces the similarity between works, making it difficult to...
A Comparative Study of Language Models for Book and Author Recognition (2005)
Linguistic information can help improve evaluation of similarity between documents; however, the kind of linguistic information to be used depends on the task. In this paper, we show that...
External Knowledge Sources for Question Answering (2005)
Boris Katz, Gregory Marton, Gary Borchardt, Alexis Brownell, Sue Felshin, Daniel Loreto, ...
MIT CSAIL's entries for the TREC Question Answering track (Voorhees, 2005) focused on incorporating external general-knowledge sources into the question answering process. We also explored the...
Content and Expression-Based Copy Recognition for Intellectual Property Protection (2003)
Özlem Uzuner, Randall Davis, All Davis
Protection of copyrights and revenues of content owners in the digital world has been gaining importance in the recent years. This paper presents a way of fingerprinting text documents that can be...
Evaluating the State-of-the-Art in Automatic De-identification
Uzuner, Özlem, Luo, Yuan, Szolovits, Peter
To facilitate and survey studies in automatic de-identification, as a part of the i2b2 (Informatics for Integrating Biology to the Bedside) project, authors organized a Natural Language Processing...
Identifying Patient Smoking Status from Medical Discharge Records
Uzuner, Özlem, Goldstein, Ira, Luo, Yuan, Kohane, Isaac
The authors organized a Natural Language Processing (NLP) challenge on automatically determining the smoking status of patients from information found in their discharge records. This challenge was...
Three Approaches to Automatic Assignment of ICD-9-CM Codes to Radiology Reports
Goldstein, Ira, Arzumtsyan, Anna, Uzuner, Özlem
We describe and evaluate three systems for automatically predicting the ICD-9-CM codes of radiology reports from short excerpts of text. The first system benefits from an open source search engine,...
Two Approaches to Assertion Classification
Uzuner, Özlem, Zhang, Xiaoran, Sibanda, Tawanda
We present a study of two approaches to assertion classification: one of these approaches, Extended NegEx, extends the rule-based NegEx algorithm to cover alter-association assertions; the other,...