Özlem Uzuner
Associate Professor
Computer Science
University at Albany
United States of America
Biography
Uzuner is interested in digital information, intellectual property, and privacy; she studies both technology and policy issues related to dissemination of information and protection of intellectual property and privacy in the digital world. In particular, she applies Natural Language Processing techniques to policy problems and applications that can benefit from textual and linguistic processing. Information retrieval, medical language processing, information extraction, data anonymization, and text summarization are her current foci. She has been published in Digital Government and Internet Taxation. Uzuner received her Ph.D. in Technology, Management and Policy Program from the Engineering Systems Division of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in February 2005. Her dissertation was on Identifying Expression Fingerprints Using Linguistic Information for the purposes of copyright infringement detection, even when documents are paraphrased.
Research Interest
Natural language processing and its applications to real-world problems. Medical informatics. Electronic Health Records. Digital government.
Publications
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Sun W., Rumshisky A., Uzuner Ö. (2013). “Annotating Temporal Information in Clinical Narratives.†Journal of Biomedical Informatics 2013 Dec;46 Suppl:S5-12. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2013.07.004. Epub 2013 Jul 19.
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Chasin R., Rumshisky A., Uzuner Ö., Szolovits P. (2014). “Word Sense Disambiguation in the Clinical Domain: a Comparison of Knowledge-rich and Knowledge-poor Unsupervised Methods.†Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Published Online First: 17 January 2014 doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002133.
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Sun W., Rumshisky A., Uzuner Ö. (2014). “Normalization of Relative and Incomplete Temporal Expressions in Clinical Narratives.†Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Forthcoming.
