I am a researcher in language technology and my research interests lie in the areas of Text Mining sometimes called Text Data Mining or Text Analytics (e.g. information extraction, relation and event extraction), corpus linguistics, lexical semantics and building and refining linguistic resources. The years before 2016 I worked mainly in the field of cultural heritage (e.g. with literary texts), but also in the field of medical and health informatics with an emphasis on medical language processing and medical terminologies
A large part of my current research consists of using state-of-the-art language technology methods and tools to be able to develop means to identify early and subtle signs of cognitive impairment. I was the PI of the project ""Linguistic and extra-linguistic parameters for early detection of cognitive impairment"" (2016-2021), the aim of which was to develop language technology methods for extracting, combining, processing, analyzing and interpreting different forms of written and spoken language as well as eye movement measurements during text reading in people in different stages of cognitive impairment and healthy control subjects. In doing so, we wanted to be able to quickly identify significant linguistic (e.g. word choice, mispronunciations, phraseological, grammatical or semantic deviations) and extra- and paralinguistic signals (e.g. pause frequency, variations in speech rhythm, speech rate, intonation and voice volume) that can be used as a supplement to early diagnostics and as a prognostic or screening tool to e.g. be able to distinguish people with mild cognitive symptoms from "normal aging" or from people who are in the early stages of developing brain diseases such as Alzheimer's.
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Since 2016, I am a (board) member of AgeCap, the Center for Aging and Health, a research center that explores the capabilities of the elderly. It is led by Prof. Ingmar Skoog, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology. AgeCap is part of Gothenburg University's investments in global challenges, so-called UGOT challenges.
In recent years I have organized four workshops - the workshops are part of a series called "RaPID": RaPID1@LREC: 2016, RaPID2@LREC: 2018, RaPID3@LREC: 2020, RaPID4@LREC: 2022; and a so-called special session (NEURAL2019@ExLing while currently in the planning phase to organize new workshops in the same research area.
Conferences and workshops I have been in OC/PC and/or reviewer, since 2015:
- 2022-06. Organising the RaPID-4@LREC workshop in Marseille, France, for details see: HERE.
- 2022: Metareviewer for the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics. IMIAYB2021. PC and reviewer for: 5th HealthNLP 2022: the 5th International Workshop on Health Natural Language Processing. Minnesota, USA; the 6th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL);...
- 2021: Metareviewer for the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics. IMIAYB2021. PC and reviewer for: the 12th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis. LOUHI; the 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa); the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics; the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP); the HealthNLP2021: the fourth International Workshop on Health Natural Language Processing; the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons (MWE-LEX 2020) and the 5th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL)
- 2020-05: Organising the RaPID-3@LREC workshop in Marseille, France, for details see: HERE -- the workshop was cancelled due to Covid-19 -- the proceedings are available and papers were reviewed as it was planned.
- 2020: PC for the 1st Semantic Indexing and Information Retrieval for Health from heterogeneous content types and languages. A 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) workshop. Lisbon, Portugal; 2020: PC for the 1st ResT UP! (Resources and Techniques for User and author Profiling in abusive language). LREC 2020 workshop, Marseille, France. -- workshop cancelled because of Covid-19; 2020: PC and reviewer (1 paper) for the International FrameNet Workshop 2020: Towards a Global, Multilingual FrameNet (IFNW 2020). LREC 2020 workshop, Marseille, France; 2020. PC and reviewer (4 papers) for the 28th COLING (Area of Language Resources and Evaluation) in Barcelona, Spain (virtual event); 2020: PC for the 4th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL). COLING workshop in Barcelona; PC and reviewer (4 papers) for the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons (MWE-LEX 2020). COLING workshop in Barcelona (virtual event); 2020. PC and reviewer (3 papers) for the 11th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis. LOUHI, an EMNLP workshop (virtual event); 2020. PC and reviewer (2 papers) for the "Language and Cognition" track at CLIC-IT 2020 (the Seventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics).
- 2019-09: Organising the NEURAL@ExLing workshop in Lisbon, Portugal, for details see: HERE.
- 2019: PC and reviewer (2 papers) for the Research Data and Humanities (RDHum). Oulu, Finland; 2019: PC for the 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL). Minneapolis, USA; 2019: PC and reviewer (10 abstracts) for the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region Congress (IAGG-ER). Gothenburg, Sweden; PC and reviewer (2 papers) for the 6th Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology. Workshop (CLPsych). An NAACL workshop. Minneapolis, USA; 2019: PC and reviewer (2 papers) for the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet (MWE-WN). An ACL workshop. Florence, Italy; 2019: PC for the HealthNLP2019, the second International Workshop on Health Natural Language Processing. An 7th IEEE International Conference on Health Informatics (ICHI) workshop. Beijing, China; 2019: PC and Reviewer for the workshop NLP and pseudonymisation. A 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa) workshop. Turku, Finland; 2019: PC and reviewer (2 papers) for the 10th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (Louhi). Hong Kong.
- 2018-5. Organising the RaPID-2@LREC workshop in Miyazaki, Japan, for details see: HERE.
- 2018: Reviewer (2 papers) for the International FrameNet Workshop 2018: Multilingual FrameNets and Constructicons, Miyazaki, Japan; 2018. PC for the first IEEE ICHI International Workshop on Health Natural Language Processing (HealthNLP). New York, USA; 2018: Reviewer (2 papers) for the Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality; The 5th Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology Workshop (CLPsych). A NAACL workshop. New Orleans, USA; 2018: PC and reviewer (3 papers) for the 9th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (Louhi). Brussels, Belgium; 2018: PC for the joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions (LAW-MWE-CxG). Santa Fe, USA; 2018: PC for the COLING 2018 Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature. (LaTeCH-CLfL). Santa Fe, USA; 2018: PC and reviewer (3 papers) for the Seventh Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC). Stockholm.
- 2017: Reviewer (2 papers) for the 13th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE) an EACL workshop. Valencia, Spain; Reviewer: Special Issue of International Journal of Lexicography on “Natural Language Processing and Automatic Knowledge Extraction for Lexicography”; 2017: Reviewer (2 papers) for the Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality; The 4th Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology Workshop (CLPsych). An ACL workshop, Vancouver, Canada; 2017: Reviewer: Phraseology and Multiword Expressions (PMWE) book series of Language Science Press (LangSci). Extended revised papers of the 13th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE); 2017: Reviewer (3 papers) for the 11th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Miyazaki, Japan; 2017: Reviewer (4 papers) for the Corpus-based Research in the Humanities (CRH-2), Vienna, Austria.
- 2016-05. Organising the RaPID-1@LREC workshop in Slovenia, for details see: HERE.
- 2016: Reviewer (3 papers), the 12th Workshop on Multiword Expressions, (an ACL Workshop), Berlin, Germany; Reviewer (3 papers), the 10th LaTECH (an ACL Workshop), Berlin, Germany; 2016: Reviewer (2 papers), the 7th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (an EMNLP Workshop), Texas, USA; 2016: Reviewer (3 papers), the 3rd Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology Workshop (CLPsych) (an NAACL workshop) San Diego, USA; 2016: Reviewer (a paper) for the Bulletin of Scientific Terminology and Neologisms, special issue on MWEs in Greek and other languages: from theory to implementation.
- 2015: Reviewer (4 papers), the 10th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Portorož, Slovenia; Reviewer (2 papers), the 11th Workshop on Multiword Expressions, Denver, Colorado, USA; Reviewer (2 papers), the 9th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, Beijing, China; Reviewer (1 paper), semantic resources and semantic annotation for Natural Language Processing and the Digital Humanities (a NODALIDA Workshop). Vilnius, Lithuania.
