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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> Two NIH funded T32 (postdoctoral) fellowship positions are available immediately. The candidate must be either US citizen or green card holder. We are interested in information retrieval, natural language
processing, machine learning, and data mining of electronic health records in the cardiovascular domain. Interested please email
<a href="mailto:hong.yu@umassmed.edu"><span style="color:#0C3962">hong.yu@umassmed.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> In addition, recently we have developed deep learning approaches to detect named entity in electronic health records and we found our approach (published in NAACL 2016) significantly outperformed conditional
random fields. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> Here is our paper: <a href="http://m-mitchell.com/NAACL-2016/NAACL-HLT2016/pdf/N16-1056.pdf"><span style="color:#0C3962">http://m-mitchell.com/NAACL-2016/NAACL-HLT2016/pdf/N16-1056.pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"> The code is freely available at: <a href="https://github.com/abhyudaynj/birnn-bionlp"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0C3962">https://github.com/abhyudaynj/birnn-bionlp</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hong Yu, MS, MA, PhD, FACMI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Professor, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Department of Medicine (Adjunct)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">University of Massachusetts Medical School<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">AS6-1083 ASC-QHS, 368 Plantation Street, Worcester, MA 01605
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">508-856-3474/ Fax: 508-856-8993 <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">and Research Health Scientist, Bedford, MA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Conference Call: 508-856-8222<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Participant Code: 0176<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Moderator Code: 2294<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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