Publications
During the first project period:
(i) Boytcheva, S. and G. Angelova. Towards Extraction of Conceptual Structures from Electronic Health Records. In: Rudolph, S., F. Dau, and S. O. Kuznetsov (Eds.): Proceedings of the 17th Int. Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS'09), July 2009, Moscow, Russian Federation. Springer, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5662, pp. 100-113.
(ii) Boytcheva, S., I. Nikolova and E. Paskaleva. Context Related Extraction of Conceptual Information from Electronic Health Records. In: Priss, U. and G. Angelova (Eds) Conceptual Structures for Extracting Natural language SEmantics, Proceedings of the Int. Workshop SENSE-09 held in conjunction with the 17th Int. Conf. on Conceptual Structures (ICCS'09), CEUR Workshop Proceedings ISSN 1613-0073, Volume 476, July 2009, accessible at http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-476/, pp. 38-49.
(iii) Boytcheva, S., I. Nikolova, E. Paskaleva, G. Angelova, D. Tcharaktchiev and N. Dimitrova. Extraction and Exploration of Correlations in Patient Status Data. In: Savova, G., V. Karkaletsis and G. Angelova (Eds). Biomedical Information Extraction, Proc. of the Int. Workshop held in conjunction with RANLP-09, Borovets, Bulgaria, 18 September 2009, Published by Incoma Ltd., ISBN 978-954-452-013-7, pp. 1-7.
(iv) Boytcheva, S., E. Paskaleva, I. Nikolova, and G. Angelova. Extracting Patient-Related Description from Medical Records in Bulgarian. In: Dicheva, D., R. Nikolov and E. Stefanova (Eds.) Software, Services & Semantic Technologies S3T-2009, Proc. of the Int. Conf. 28-29 Oct. 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria, ISBN 978-954-9526-62-2, pp. 21-28.
(v) Tcharaktchiev D., Boytcheva S., Nikolova I., Paskaleva E., Angelova G., Dimitrova., N. Generating Structured Patient Data via Automatic Analysis of Free Medical Text, In Jordanova M., Lievens F. (Eds) Global Telemedicine / eHealth Updates: Knowledge Resources, Vol. 3, Publ. ISfTeH, Luxembourg, April 2010, ISSN 1998-5509, pp. 356-359.
(vi) Boytcheva, S., I. Nikolova, E. Paskaleva, G. Angelova, D. Tcharaktchiev and N. Dimitrova. Structuring of Status Descriptions in Hospital Patient Records. In the Proc. 2nd Int. Workshop on Building and Evaluating Resources for BioMedical Text Mining, associated to the 7th Int. Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2010), ISBN 2-9517408-6-7, Malta, May 2010, pp. 31-36.
(vii) Ivelina Nikolova, Hristo Dimitrov, and Dimitar Tcharaktchiev. 2010. Ethics and security in text mining of patient records in Bulgarian: the EVTIMA solution. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies and Workshop for PhD Students in Computing on International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies (CompSysTech '10), Boris Rachev and Angel Smrikarov (Eds.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 515-520. DOI=10.1145/1839379.1839472 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1839379.1839472
(viii) Tcharaktchiev, D., G. Angelova, N. Dimitrova, S. Boytcheva, E. Paskaleva, I. Nikolova, and H. Dimitrov. Novel trends in medical research using automatic processing of text based hospital patient records. In: Kioulafas, K. and M. Katharaki (Eds.) Electronic CD-ROM proc. of the 8th Int. Conf. on Information and Communication Technologies in Health (8th ICICTH 2010), July 2010, Samos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, ISBN: 978-960-466-059-9, ISSN: 1790-3904.
(ix) Boytcheva S. Assignment of ICD-10 Codes to Diagnoses in Hospital Patient Records in Bulgarian. In: Alfred, R., G. Angelova and H. Pfeiffer (Eds.). Proceedings of the International Workshop on Extraction of Structured Information from Texts in the Biomedical Domain (ESIT-BioMed 2010), associated to the 18th Int. Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS-2010), Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, 26 July 2010, Published by MIMOS BERHAD, ISBN 978-983-41371-3-7, July 2010, pp. 56-66.
(x) Angelova, G. Use of Domain Knowledge in the Automatic Extraction of Structured Representations from Patient-Related Texts. In: Croitoru, M., S. Ferre, and D. Lucose (Eds.): Proceedings of the 18th Int. Conf. on Conceptual Structures (ICCS'2010), July 2010, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. Springer, Lecture Notes in AI 6208, pp. 14-27.
(xi) Boytcheva, S., G. Angelova, I. Nikolova, E. Paskaleva, D. Tcharaktchiev and N. Dimitrova. EVTIMA: a system for IE from hospital patient records in Bulgarian. In: Dicheva, D. and D. Dochev (Eds.): Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on AI: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA-2010), September 2010, Varna, Bulgaria. Springer, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6304, pp. 231-240.
(xii) Boytcheva S., I. Nikolova, E. Paskaleva, G. Angelova, D. Tcharaktchiev and N. Dimitrova. Obtaining Status Descriptions via Automatic Analysis of Hospital Patient Records. In: V. Fomichov (Ed.), Special Issue on Semantic Informational Technologies of Informatica, an International Journal of Computing and Informatics (Slovenia, Ljubljana), Issue 4, December 2010.
During the second project period:
(i) Nikolova, I. and G. Angelova. Identifying Relations between Medical Concepts by
Parsing UMLS Definitions. In: Andrews, S., S. Polovina, R. Hill and B. Akhgar (Eds.),
Conceptual Structures for Discovering Knowledge, Proc. of ICCS-2011, the 19th Int.
Con. on Conceptual Structures, UK, July 2011, Springer, Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence 6828, 2011, pp. 173-186, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22688-5_13.
(ii) Angelova, G., S. Boytcheva and D. Tcharaktchiev. Towards Structuring Episodes in
Patient History. In: Andrews, S., S. Polovina, R. Hill and B. Akhgar (Eds.),
Conceptual Structures for Discovering Knowledge, Proc. of ICCS-2011, the 19th Int.
Conf. on Conceptual Structures, UK, July 2011, Springer, Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence 6828, 2011, pp. 298-303, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22688-5_22.
(iii) Tcharaktchiev, D., S. Boytcheva and G. Angelova. Empirical Approach to Event
Sequencing in Automatic Analysis of Patient Records. In A. Moen at al. (Eds) User
Centred Networked Health Case, Poster Presentation at MIE-2011, the 23th Int. Conf.
of the European Federation for Medical Informatics, Norway, August 2011, in the CD
Conf. Proceedings, see
http://person.hst.aau.dk/ska/mie2011/CD/MIE_2011_Content/Posters/030_or_submission_392_2_am_ok.pdf
(iv) Boytcheva, S., G. Angelova, Z. Angelov, D. Tcharaktchiev, and H. Dimitrov.
Integrating Patient-Related Facts using Hospital Information System Data and
Automatic Analysis of Free Text. In Tjoa, A., G. Quirchmayr, L. Xu and I. You (Eds.),
Availability, Reliability and Security for Business, Enterprise and Health Information
Systems, Proc. of the Workshop on Massive Information Sharing and Integration and
Electronic Healthcare, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6908, 2011, pp.
89-101, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23300-5_8.
(v) Angelova, G. and S. Boytcheva. Towards Temporal Segmentation of Patient History in
Discharge Letters. In: Savova, G., K. B. Cohen and G. Angelova (Eds). Biomedical
Natural Language Processing, Proc. of the Int. Workshop held in conjunction with
RANLP-11, Hissar, Bulgaria, 15 September 2011, Published by Incoma Ltd.,
Shoumen, ISBN 978-954-452-020-5, 2011, pp. 49-54.
http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W11/W11-42.pdf
(vi) Boytcheva, S. Automatic Matching of ICD-10 codes to Diagnoses in Discharge
Letters. In: Savova, G., K. B. Cohen and G. Angelova (Eds). Biomedical Natural
Language Processing, Proc. of the Int. Workshop held in conjunction with RANLP-11, Hissar, Bulgaria, 15 September 2011, Published by Incoma Ltd., Shoumen, ISBN
978-954-452-020-5, 2011, pp. 11-18. http://aclweb.org/anthology-
new/W/W11/W11-42.pdf
(vii) Georgiev, G., V. Zhivkov, B. Popov and P. Nakov. Building a Named Entity
Recogniser in Three Days: Application to Disease Name Recognition in Bulgarian
Epicrises. In: Savova, G., K. B. Cohen and G. Angelova (Eds). Biomedical Natural
Language Processing, Proc. of the Int. Workshop held in conjunction with RANLP-
11, Hissar, Bulgaria, 15 September 2011, Published by Incoma Ltd., Shoumen, ISBN
978-954-452-020-5, 2011, pp. 27-34. http://aclweb.org/anthology-
new/W/W11/W11-42.pdf
(viii) Savova, G., K. B. Cohen and G. Angelova (Eds). Biomedical Natural Language
Processing, Proceedings of the International Workshop held in conjunction with
RANLP-11, Hissar, Bulgaria, 15 September 2011, Published by Incoma Ltd.,
Shoumen, ISBN 978-954-452-020-5, 2011, 54 pages.
http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W11/W11-42.pdf
(ix) Nikolova, I. Paraphrase Identification in Biomedical Terminology. In: Dranidis, D., A.
Kapoulas, and A. Vivas (Eds.) Proceedings of the 6th Annual South-East European
Doctoral Student Conference, 19-20 September, Thessaloniki, Greece, ISBN 978-960-
9416-04-7, ISSN 1791-3578, pp. 326-333.
(x) Boytcheva, S., G. Angelova, and I. Nikolova. Automatic Analysis of Patient History
Episodes in Bulgarian Hospital Discharge Letters. Proc. of the Demonstrations at the
13th Conf.of the European Chapter of ACL, April, 2012, Avignon, France, pp. 77-81,
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/E12-2016
(xi) Boytcheva, S. Multilingual Aspects of Information Extraction from Medical Texts in
Bulgarian. Book chapter in: C. Vertan and W. v. Hahn (Eds.), Multilingual Processing
in Eastern and Southern EU Languages: Less-resourced Technologies and
Translation, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012, ISBN 1443838780,
9781443838788 (1 June 2012, see http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/Multilingual-
Processing-in-Eastern-and-Southern-EU-Languages--Low-Resourced-Technologies-
and-Transla1-4438-3878-0.htm а също и
http://books.google.bg/books/about/Multilingual_Processing_in_Eastern_and_S.html?i
d=o431ugAACAAJ&redir_esc=y)
(xii) Nikolova, I. Unified Extraction of Health Condition Descriptions. In Proceedings of
the NAACL HLT 2012 Student Research Workshop, Montreal, Canada, June 3-8,
2012, pages 23–28, http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/N/N12/N12-
2005.pdf
(xiii) Boytcheva, S. Structured Information Extraction from Medical Texts in Bulgarian. In
Proc. of the SINUS Workshop “Semantic Technologies in the Humanities”, 7-8 June
2012, Sozopol, Bulgaria, to appear in a Special Issue of the Journal Cybernetics and
Information Technologies, 2012.
(xiv) Angelova, G., D. Tcharaktchiev, S. Boytcheva, I. Nikolova, H. Dimitrov and Z.
Angelov. From Individual EHR Maintenance to Generalised Findings: Experiments
for Application of NLP to Patient-Related Texts. In Proc. MedDecSup-2012 (ще сеотпечати в том на Шпрингер, в поредицата Studies in Computational Intelligence, вж. http://rcvt.tu-sofia.bg/meddecsup2012/proceedings.html и Служебна бележка)
(xv) Boytcheva, S. and G. Angelova. A Workbench for Temporal Event Information
Extraction from Patient Records. In Ramsay, A. and G. Agre (Eds.), Proceedings of
the Int. Conference AIMSA-2012, Springer, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Vol. 7557, 2012.
(xvi) Чаръкчиев, Д., Св. Бойчева, Г. Ангелова и Ив. Николова. Електронни здравни записи и автоматизирана обработка на медицински текст. Инкома ЕООД, Шумен, ISBN 978-954-452-023-6, 2012, 61 стр. |