Language technology for hospitals and health research: clinical notes, drug safety and patient privacy.
Much of what is known about patients is written as free text: discharge letters, clinical notes, reports of side effects. We build methods that help clinicians and researchers use this text, while protecting patient privacy and working in the languages spoken in Swiss hospitals.
Recent work includes drafting discharge summaries in Italian together with clinicians, finding adverse drug reactions to support drug safety, and removing personal information from clinical records.
Semi-automated generation of discharge summaries
Helps doctors write discharge letters faster by drafting them from the patient record, for the doctor to check and complete.
Applied
2025–now
· Innosuisse
Medical, multilingual and privacy-preserving NLP in the clinical domain
Makes modern language technology usable in Swiss hospitals: across the country's languages and without exposing patient data.
Research
2025–2026
· Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
NLP in support of pharmacovigilance: Quality Adverse Drug Reaction Active Control
Finds reports of adverse drug reactions in clinical text, to support drug-safety monitoring.
Research
2024–2025
· Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
Identifying the risk of, and preventing, work-related stress disorders
Explored how text and data can help identify the risk of work-related stress.
Applied
2022–2024
Misinformation in social media during COVID-19
Studied how to identify misinformation on social media, and public stance towards health policies, during the pandemic.
Research
2021–2022
Social media mining for health
Combined ten methods for analysing COVID-19 tweets into one public platform with interactive visualisations.
Research
2020–2021
Mining patient insights in social media conversations
With Roche, extracted information from patient conversations online to support patient-centred drug development.
Applied
2019–2021
· Industry
Automated detection of adverse drug events from older inpatients' records
Used NLP and data mining on electronic medical records from five Swiss hospitals to detect adverse drug events in older patients. Part of the National Research Programme NRP 74 'Smarter Health Care'.
Research
2017–2021
· Swiss National Science Foundation (NRP 74)
Automatic Medical Discharge Summary Evaluation
Andrea Franchini, Lorenzo Ruinelli, Amos Colombo,
Samuel Corecco,
Behnaz Rezaeifar, Sotirios Georgios Popeskou, Mathilde Marie Rochat, Dimitrios Christoforidis, Nicolò Saverio Centemero, Matteo Cerina,
Fabio Rinaldi Building Commons for Clinical LLMs, Paris 2026 International Conference, 2026
Joint Proceedings of the Thematic Workshops at Ital-IA 2025, Trieste, Italy, June 23-24, 2025, 2025
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC-COLING 2024, 2024
Koji Fujimoto, Mizuho Nishio, Chikako Tanaka, Morteza Rohanian, Farhad Nooralahzadeh, Michael Krauthammer,
Fabio RinaldiSanghwan Kim, Farhad Nooralahzadeh, Morteza Rohanian, Koji Fujimoto, Mizuho Nishio, Ryo Sakamoto,
Fabio Rinaldi, Michael Krauthammer
Mizuho Nishio, Hidetoshi Matsuo, Takaaki Matsunaga, Koji Fujimoto, Morteza Rohanian, Farhad Nooralahzadeh,
Fabio Rinaldi, Michael Krauthammer
Jana Sedlakova, Paola Daniore, Andrea Horn Wintsch, Markus Wolf, Mina Stanikic, Christina Haag, Chloé Sieber, Gerold Schneider, Kaspar Staub, Dominik Alois Ettlin, Oliver Grübner,
Fabio Rinaldi, Viktor von Wyl
Anastassia Shaitarova, Jamil Zaghir, Alberto Lavelli, Michael Krauthammer,
Fabio RinaldiThe 16th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, 2022
K. Fujimoto, M. Nishio, O. Sugiyama, K. Ichikawa,
Joseph Cornelius,
Oscar William Lithgow-Serrano,
Vani Kanjirangat,
Fabio Rinaldi, A. Horvath, Farhad Nooralahzadeh, Michael Krauthammer
The 16th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, 2022
Frederic Gaspar, Monika Lutters, Patrick Emanuel Beeler, Pierre Olivier Lang, Bernard Burnand,
Fabio Rinaldi, Christian Lovis, Chantal Csajka, Marie-Annick Le Pogam
Alberto Lavelli, Eben Holderness, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Anne-Lyse Minard, James Pustejovsky,
Fabio Rinaldi (eds.)
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Social Media Mining for Health Applications, Workshop & Shared Task, 2022
Nico Colic, Patrick Beeler, Chantal Csajka, Vasiliki Foufi, Frederic Gaspar, Marie-Annick Le Pogam, Angela Lisibach, Christian Lovis, Monika Lutters,
Fabio Rinaldi Tamar Edry, Nason Maani, Martin Sykora, Suzanne Elayan, Yulin Hswen, Markus Wolf,
Fabio Rinaldi, Sandro Galea, Oliver Gruebner
Eben Holderness, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Alberto Lavelli, Anne-Lyse Minard, James Pustejovsky,
Fabio Rinaldi (eds.)
Edited proceedings (Association for Computational Linguistics), 2021
Proceedings of the Fifth Social Media Mining for Health Applications Workshop & Shared Task, 2020
Eben Holderness, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Alberto Lavelli, Anne-Lyse Minard, James Pustejovsky,
Fabio Rinaldi (eds.)
Eben Holderness, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Alberto Lavelli, Anne-Lyse Minard, James Pustejovsky,
Fabio Rinaldi (eds.)
Edited proceedings (Association for Computational Linguistics), 2019
Seyedmostafa Sheikhalishahi, Riccardo Miotto, Joel T Dudley, Alberto Lavelli,
Fabio Rinaldi, Venet Osmani
Oscar William Lithgow-Serrano
Group leader
Joseph Cornelius
Researcher
Andrea Franchini
Researcher
Samuel Corecco
Researcher