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Medical Language Processing

My research activity at STIM concerns natural language processing, with medical texts as a concrete field for investigation and application.

See also some of my former activities.

• Medical lexicon (project UMLF),
• Medical corpora and terminology (project VUMeF, group TIA),
• Medical corpora (project EASy, project EQueR, project Corpus CLEF),
• Question-answering systems (project EQueR)
• Corpus-based knowledge acquisition (group TIA, group ASSTICCOT, project ESPOIR),
• Knowledge representation and ontologies.

• Project ACI UMLF, 2002-2004. Unified Medical Lexicon for French (coordinator).
• Project RNTS VUMeF, 2003-2005. French Unified Medical Vocabulary.
• Project EQueR, 2003-2004 (Technolangue EVALDA).
• Project EASy, 2003-2004 (Technolangue EVALDA). Preparation and syntactic annotation of a medical corpus.
• WG Terminology and Artificial Intelligence (TIA, GdR-PRC IA, GdR I³, AFIA), 1993-.
• WG Knowledge Learning, Acquisition, Application from Texts (A3CTE, GdR I³), 1998-.
• EFMI WG8 Natural Language Understanding (WG8, EFMI), 1999-
• AMIA SIG Natural Language Processing Special Interest Group (NLP-SIG, AMIA), 2001-

• I coordinated, with Sophia Ananiadou, the workshop CompuTerm 2004 at COLING 2004
• Workshop Text Mining in Biomedicine at IJCNLP 2004
• TALN 2004 and RÉCITAL 2004
• Workshop Question-Answering at TALN 2004
• Workshop BioLink 2004 at HLT/NAACL 2004
• Workshop Question Answering in Restricted Domains and poster/demonstration sessions at ACL 2004
• International Joint workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine and its Applications (NLPBA/BioNLP) 2004 at COLING 2004
• Conference MEDINFO 2004

To be updated

2003 Yun-Chuang Chiao & Pierre Zweigenbaum. The effect of a general lexicon in corpus-based identification of French-English medical word translations. In Pierre Le Beux and Robert Baud, editors, Actes Medical Informatics Europe, Amsterdam, 2003. IOS Press. À paraître. Natalia Grabar, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Lina Soualmia, & Stéfan J. Darmoni. Matching controlled vocabulary. In Pierre Le Beux and Robert Baud, editors, Actes Medical Informatics Europe, Amsterdam, 2003. IOS Press. À paraître. Pierre Jacquemart & Pierre Zweigenbaum. Towards a medical question-answering system: a feasibility study. In Pierre Le Beux and Robert Baud, editors, Actes Medical Informatics Europe, Amsterdam, 2003. IOS Press. À paraître. Pierre Zweigenbaum, Robert Baud, Anita Burgun, Fiammetta Namer, Éric Jarrousse, Natalia Grabar, Patrick Ruch, Franck Le Duff, Benoît Thirion, & Stéfan Darmoni. Towards a Unified Medical Lexicon for French. In Pierre Le Beux and Robert Baud, editors, Actes Medical Informatics Europe, Amsterdam, 2003. IOS Press. À paraître.

All my publications

• by date
• by type
• indexed in Medline
• indexed in CiteSeer ResearchIndex
• citations according to CiteSeer ResearchIndex
• indexed in Google Scholar

• Associate Professor in the department Texts, Informatics, Multilingualism of INALCO  : course "Natural language processing"; course "Specialised languages: the medical domain";
• Biomedical Informatics Master (Universities Paris 5, Paris 13, Rennes 1 and Méditerranée) : in charge of the module " Medical language processing " ; member of the Master board
• Artificial Intelligence Master (University Paris 6)  : in charge of the Natural Language Processing module
• I defended my Habilitation à diriger des recherches (a French diploma beyond Ph.D.) in 1998

• I am co-chief editor of the journal Traitement Automatique des Langues (2002-), president (2002-) of the Standing Board of the TALN conference
• I am Secretary General of the French Association for Medical Informatics (AIM)
• I coordinate, with Philippe Blache, the Language chapter of GdR Information - Interaction - Intelligence (I³)

Phone +33 (0)1 43 95 98 15

Fax: +33 (0)1 43 95 98 26

Email: pz@biomath.jussieu.fr

URL: http://www-new.biomath.jussieu.fr/~pz/

Address:

STIM - DPA/DSI
Hôpital Broussais
96, rue Didot
75674 Paris cedex 14 - France

Location: Bâtiment Blaise Pascal, porte 3