Biomedical information is often captured in text as natural human language (instead of using structured and standardized formats). The goal of research in natural language processing is to analyze and understand the information within natural language documents. The field of information retrieval is concerned with identifying documents within a large collection that are most relevant to a user’s search.
Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval Faculty: Eric Durbi, Sujin Kim, Rama Kavuluru
Projects
- University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center - Cancer Center Support Grant
- Supplement: Cost Extension - Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science
- Extracting meaning from unstructured biomedical text: Focus on binary relations
- Informatics at the Kentucky Cancer Registry: Infrastructure, data analysis, and precision cancer surveillance
- Toward Fine-Grained E-Cigarette Surveillance on Social Media: Evolving Themes, Popularity Predictors, and Demographic Variations
Recent publications and other works
journal article | 2021
Tran T, Ickes MJ, Hester JW, Kavuluru R
Identifying current Juul users among emerging adults through Twitter feeds
International journal of medical informatics
other | 2021
Kavuluru R, Noh J, Rose SW
Twitter Discourse on Nicotine as Potential Prophylactic or Therapeutic for COVID-19
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
journal article | 2020
Hanauer DA, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Beno MF, Del Fiol G, Durbin EB, Gologorskaya O, Harris D, Harnett B, Kawamoto K, May B, Meeks E, Pfaff E, Weiss J, Zheng K
JCO clinical cancer informatics
journal article | 2020
Cui L, Abeysinghe R, Zheng F, Tao S, Zeng N, Hands I, Durbin EB, Whiteman L, Remennik L, Sioutos N, Zhang GQ
JCO clinical cancer informatics
journal article | 2020
Tran T, Kavuluru R
Social media surveillance for perceived therapeutic effects of cannabidiol (CBD) products
The International journal on drug policy
journal article | 2020
Ickes M, Hester JW, Wiggins AT, Rayens MK, Hahn EJ, Kavuluru R
Prevalence and reasons for Juul use among college students
Journal of American college health : J of ACH
conference paper | 2020
Noh J, Kavuluru R
Document Reranking for Precision Medicine with Neural Matching and Faceted Summarization
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Findings, EMNLP 2020, Online Event, 16-20 November 2020.
journal article | 2019
Goulart BHL, Silgard ET, Baik CS, Bansal A, Sun Q, Durbin EB, Hands I, Shah D, Arnold SM, Ramsey SD, Kavuluru R, Schwartz SM
JCO clinical cancer informatics
journal article | 2019
Gallaway MS, Huang B, Chen Q, Tucker TC, McDowell JK, Durbin E, Stewart SL, Tai E
Smoking and Smoking Cessation Among Persons with Tobacco- and Non- tobacco-Associated Cancers
J Community Health
journal article | 2019
Gallaway MS, Huang B, Chen Q, Tucker T, McDowell J, Durbin E, Siegel D, Tai E
JCO Clin Cancer Inform