NEWS

• [2024-09-28 Sat] Our SNF project proposal (M2P2) has been approved!!! We are looking forward to a collaboration with Prof. Michael Krauthammer (UZH) and Prof J.L. Raisaro (CHUV) to increase the impact of modern NLP technologies in the Swiss health sector!
• [2024-09-16 Mon] Invited presentation at the "Giornata della democrazia", Locarno.
• [2024-03-01 Fri] Our article on evaluating detectors of LLM-generated text accepted at NAACL 2024! BUST: Benchmark for the evaluation of detectors of LLM-Generated Text Joseph Cornelius, Oscar Lithgow-Serrano, Sandra Mitrovic, Ljiljana Dolamic, Fabio Rinaldi
• [2024-02-01 Thu] During 2024 our participation in the Swiss AI initiative will be a core focus of our activity. The Swiss AI initiative is a Swiss-wide consortium to develop innovative AI applications using the new powerful infrastructure Alps, provided by the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre.

[2023-12-28 Thu] Our important survey of multilingual medical text processing has finally been published!

• Anastassia Shaitarova, Jamil Zaghir, Alberto Lavelli, Michael Krauthammer, Fabio Rinaldi. Exploring the Latest Highlights in Medical Natural Language Processing across Multiple Languages: A Survey. IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 2023 December 2023 Yearbook of Medical Informatics 32(01):230-243 doi: 10.1055/s-0043-1768726

[2023-09-30 Sat] Dr. Rinaldi gave an invited presentation (in Italian) at the "Giornata di formazione e scambio dedicata all’intelligenza artificiale, videogiochi e scuola", Istituto Maria Consolatrice, 20124 Milano (MI) https://www.foe.it/attivita/tavolo-del-digitale-proposta-di-una-giornata-di-formazione-e-scambio-dedicata-allintelligenza-artificiale-videogiochi-e-scuola

[2023-08-25 Fri] We will participate in the Swiss AI initiative

[2023-06-26 Mon] Dr. Rinaldi gave an introductory presentation about generative AI at a public event organized by Lugano Living Lab: https://innovando.it/nuove-prospettive-ai-per-pmi-locali-con-lugano-living-lab/

[2023-06-15 Thu] An article by Luca Botturi, following a conversation with Dr. Rinaldi about generative AI: https://www.ssr-corsi.ch/attualita/rubriche/esplorazioni-digitali-informarsi-intelligentemente-con-lintelligenza-artificiale

[2023-06-12 Mon] We co-organized the workshop on Text Mining and Biodiversity Research Infrastructure at SwissText 2023.

[2023-06-01 Thu] An article in Horizons: The Swiss Research Magazine describes our work on anonymisation of health data. Progress with the anonymisation of health data, Fabio Rinaldi https://www.horizons-mag.ch/2023/06/01/algorithms-can-fix-it/

[2023-05-15 Mon] An article in "Money mag" (in Italian) reports an interview with Dr. Rinaldi about the common fears about generative AI. https://www.moneymag.ch/intelligenza-artificiale-fa-paura-intervista-fabio-rinaldi

[2023-05-05 Fri] Our paper on the importance of subword vocabularies has been presented at VarDial 2023, part of EACL 2023.

• Vani Kanjirangat, Tanja Samardžić, Ljiljana Dolamic, Fabio Rinaldi (2023). Optimizing the Size of Subword Vocabularies in Dialect Classification. doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.vardial-1.2

[2023-02-14 Tue] An article in "Cooperazione" (pag. 17) about the evolution of machine translation: https://epaper.cooperazione.ch/aviator/aviator.php?newspaper=CO&issue=20230214&edition=CO60&globalnumber=202307&startpage=1&displaypages=2

[2022-12-07 Wed] We co-organized LOUHI 2022: The 13th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis, at EMNLP 2022.

[2022-11-04 Fri] Over the past few months we participated in the n2c2 Shared Task, and today the results were presented at AMIA. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S153204642300153

[2022-10-17 Mon] We presented our paper at SMM4H 2022: The Seventh Workshop on Social Media Mining for Health Applications, Workshop & Shared Task (part of COLING 2022).

• Lithgow-Serrano, O., Cornelius, J., Rinaldi, F., Dolamic, L. (2022). mattica@SMM4H’22: Leveraging sentiment for stance & premise joint learning. Proceedings of The Seventh Workshop on Social Media Mining for Health Applications, Workshop and Shared Task, 75–77. https://aclanthology.org/2022.smm4h-1.22

[2022-08-24 Wed] The Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) published a screencast by Dr. Fabio Rinaldi about the output of his project "MelanoBase".

[2022-06-14 Tue] Our papers in collaboration with the group of Michael Krauthammer (Univ. Zurich) and Koji Fujimoto (Univ. Kyoto) have been presented at NTCIR-16.

• Cornelius, J., Oscar Lithgow-Serrano, Kangirangat, V., Rinaldi, F., Fujimoto, K., Nishio, M., Sugiyama, O., Nooralahzadeh, F., Horvath, A., Krauthammer, M. (2022). Leveraging Token-Based Concept Information and Data Augmentation in Few-Resource NER : ZuKyo-EN at the NTCIR-16 Real-MedNLP task. The 16th NTCIR Conference Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, 316–321. ISBN 978-4-86049-082-9 https://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings16/pdf/ntcir/05-NTCIR16-MEDNLP-CorneliusJ.pdf
• Fujimoto, K., Nishio, M., Sugiyama, O., Ichikawa, K., Cornelius, J., Lithgow-Serrano, O., Kanjirangat, V., Rinaldi, F., Horvath, A., Nooralahzadeh, F., Krauthammer, M. (2022). Approach for Named Entity Recognition and Case Identification Implemented by ZuKyo-JA Sub-team at the NTCIR-16 Real-MedNLP Task. The 16th NTCIR Conference Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, 322–329. ISBN 978-4-86049-082-9 https://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings16/pdf/ntcir/06-NTCIR16-MEDNLP-FujimotoK.pdf

[2022-06-08 Wed] We organized and hosted SwissText 2022.

[2022-03-24 Thu] A long overdue paper originating from the MelanoBase project, describing advanced approaches for Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Normalisation (NEN) in the biomedical field has been finally published:

• Lenz Furrer, Joseph Cornelius, Fabio Rinaldi. Parallel sequence tagging for concept recognition. BMC Bioinformatics volume 22, Article number: 623 (2021). doi: 10.1186/s12859-021-04511-y

[2022-01-19 Wed] The paper reporting the main results of the MelanoBase project has finally been published:

• Roberto Zanoli, Alberto Lavelli, Theresa Löffler, Nicolas Andres Perez Gonzalez, Fabio Rinaldi. An annotated dataset for extracting gene-melanoma relations from scientific literature. Journal of Biomedical Semantics, volume 13, Article number: 2 (2022). doi: 10.1186/s13326-021-00251-3

[2021-08-30 Mon] Three major journal papers accepted last week:

• Vani Kanjirangat, Fabio Rinaldi. Enhancing Biomedical Relation Extraction with Transformer Models using Shortest Dependency Path Features and Triplet Information. Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
• Roberto Zanoli, Alberto Lavelli, Theresa Löffler, Nicolas Andres Perez Gonzalez, Fabio Rinaldi. An annotated dataset for extracting gene-melanoma relations from scientific literature. Journal of Biomedical Semantics (accepted for publication).
• Carlos-Francisco Méndez-Cruz, Martín Díaz-Rodríguez, Oscar Lithgow-Serrano, Francisco Guadarrama-García, Víctor H. Tierrafría, Socorro Gama-Castro, Hilda Solano-Lira, Fabio Rinaldi, Julio Collado-Vides. Lisen&Curate: A platform to facilitate gathering textual evidence for curation of regulation of transcription initiation in bacteria. BBA - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

[2021-08-12 Thu] New project approved: MisInfoCOV19 (see project sections)

[2021-06-16 Wed] Four (!) presentations by our group at SwissText2021 (in addition to the workshop mentioned below).

[2021-06-14 Mon] We are organizing a workshop on NLP efforts against COVID-19 in Switzerland, as part of SwissText 2021.

[2021-04-19 Mon] We are co-organizing the 12th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (LOUHI 2021) (a workshop of EACL 2021).

[2021-03-01 Mon] Beginning of two new projects: INCdid and ArthroTraitMine (see below for deetails).

[2021-01-22 Fri] We participated in BLAH7, the 7th Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon, with two projects: (1) finding statements in support or against specific drugs for the treatment of COVID-19, (2) supporting the automated classification of COVID-19 scientific literature into clinically-relevant categories.

[2021-01-10 Sun] watch this presentation: Presentation, given at AIHA2020, the international Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare applications. It is a good description of our our activities on clinical text processing.

[2020-12-12 Sat] Invited presentation by Dr. Fabio Rinaldi at the Social Media Mining for Health Applications (#SMM4H) workshop at COLING 2020.

[2020-12-12 Sat] Paper presentation by Joseph Cornelius at the Social Media Mining for Health Applications (#SMM4H) workshop at COLING 2020. This paper describes our COVID-19 Twitter Monitor.

[2020-11-20 Fri] Paper presented at the NLP COVID-19 Workshop (Part 2) at EMNLP 2020. This paper describes our work on automatically annotating the COVID-19 scientific literature.