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Dr. Meliha Yetisgen
Date: Monday, October 25, 2021
Time: 9-10am Pacific / 12-1pm Eastern
Presenter: Meliha Yetisgen, PhD
Title: “Extracting Information from Clinical Narratives for Secondary Use Application”
About the Speaker: Dr. Meliha Yetisgen
Meliha Yetisgen, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington (UW). She leads the UW-BioNLP research group. Before joining the University of Washington, she worked in industry as a researcher. During this period, she designed and developed statistical Natural Language Processing systems for event extraction from various types of text.
Dr. Yetisgen has extensive experience in large-scale annotated corpora creation with crowd sourcing and active learning. Her current research specializes on the design and development of text processing systems in the clinical domain for a wide range of secondary use applications. Dr. Yetisgen received her BS degree on Computer Engineering from Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey) and MS degree on Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey). She received her PhD from University of Washington with a thesis on automated hypothesis generation from biomedical literature.