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Karin Verspoor

Executive Dean, School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University
Verified email at rmit.edu.au
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Big data in medicine is driving big changes

F Martin-Sanchez, K Verspoor - Yearbook of medical …, 2014 - thieme-connect.com
Objectives: To summarise current research that takes advantage of “Big Data” in health and
biomedical informatics applications. Methods:Survey of trends in this work, and exploration …

The secondary use of electronic health records for data mining: Data characteristics and challenges

…, X Zhang, V Aksakalli, I Hudson, K Verspoor… - ACM Computing …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The primary objective of implementing Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is to improve the
management of patients’ health-related information. However, these records have also been …

[HTML][HTML] A large-scale evaluation of computational protein function prediction

…, T Wittkop, A Sokolov, K Graim, C Funk, K Verspoor… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Automated annotation of protein function is challenging. As the number of sequenced
genomes rapidly grows, the overwhelming majority of protein products can only be annotated …

Findings of the 2016 conference on machine translation (wmt16)

…, L Specia, M Turchi, K Verspoor… - First conference on …, 2016 - research.ed.ac.uk
This paper presents the results of the WMT16 shared tasks, which included five machine
translation (MT) tasks (standard news, IT-domain, biomedical, multimodal, pronoun), three …

Artificial intelligence for clinical decision support in neurology

M Pedersen, K Verspoor, M Jenkinson… - Brain …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Artificial intelligence is one of the most exciting methodological shifts in our era. It holds the
potential to transform healthcare as we know it, to a system where humans and machines …

[HTML][HTML] An expanded evaluation of protein function prediction methods shows an improvement in accuracy

…, R Lepore, CS Funk, I Kahanda, KM Verspoor… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Background A major bottleneck in our understanding of the molecular underpinnings of life
is the assignment of function to proteins. While molecular experiments provide the most …

[HTML][HTML] The CHEMDNER corpus of chemicals and drugs and its annotation principles

…, M Yoshioka, TM Dieb, M Choi, K Verspoor… - Journal of …, 2015 - Springer
The automatic extraction of chemical information from text requires the recognition of
chemical entity mentions as one of its key steps. When developing supervised named entity …

[HTML][HTML] Concept annotation in the CRAFT corpus

…, D Sitnikov, WA Baumgartner, KB Cohen, K Verspoor… - BMC …, 2012 - Springer
Background Manually annotated corpora are critical for the training and evaluation of
automated methods to identify concepts in biomedical text. Results This paper presents the …

SemEval-2017 task 3: Community question answering

…, A Moschitti, H Mubarak, T Baldwin, K Verspoor - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
We describe SemEval-2017 Task 3 on Community Question Answering. This year, we reran
the four subtasks from SemEval-2016:(A) Question-Comment Similarity,(B) Question-…

[HTML][HTML] BioC: a minimalist approach to interoperability for biomedical text processing

…, Y Peng, F Rinaldi, M Torii, A Valencia, K Verspoor… - Database, 2013 - academic.oup.com
… Karin Verspoor is a senior researcher and leader of the Biomedical Informatics team at the
National ICT Australia (NICTA) Victoria Research Laboratory. She is a computational linguist …