Yuan An
"Associate Professor "
Department of Information Science
Drexel University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. An's research interests include health and biomedical information integration, extraction, and analysis; requirements analysis and engineering for healthcare information systems; semantic and ontology mapping; knowledge representation and reasoning. He has conducted research on discovering and using semantic mappings between different data representations including relational schemas, XML DTDs/schemas, ontologies, and other conceptual models. His current projects include helping healthcare providers gather and retrieve healthcare information in structured databases, indexing and searching biological Web interfaces, creating online schema repositories, and developing a case-based approach for schema design. His teaching interests include systems analysis and design, requirements engineering, software development, and database management systems.
Research Interest
Conceptual modeling, schema and ontology mapping, information integration, knowledge representation, requirements engineering, healthcare information systems, semantic web
Publications
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"Yuan Ling, Yuan An, Mengwen Liu, and Xiaohua Hu. An Error Detecting and Tagging Framework for Reducing Data Entry Errors in Electronic Medical Records (EMR) System. In the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) 2013. pages 249-254. Shanghai, China. Dec. 18-21, 2013. "
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"I. Burstyn, A. Slutsky, DG. Lee, AB Singer, Y. An, YL. Michael. Beyond crosswalks: Reliability of exposure assessment following automated coding of free-text job descriptions for occupational epidemiology. The Annals of Occupational Hygiene, 2014, 58 (4): 482-492. "
