Ozlem Uzuner Assistant Professor State University of New York, Albany Draper 114A 135 Western Ave. Albany, NY 12222 ouzuner @ albany.edu Research Affiliate MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Clinical Decision Making Group Room 32-G252 32 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA 02139 uzuner @ mit.edu

Research

Dr. Uzuner is an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York, Albany and a research affiliate at CSAIL, working with the Clinical Decision Making Group led by Professor Peter Szolovits and InfoLab led by Dr. Boris Katz.

Dr. Uzuner received her Ph.D. in Technology, Management and Policy Program from the Engineering Systems Division of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in February 2005. Her dissertation was on Identifying Expression Fingerprints Using Linguistic Information for the purposes of copyright infringement detection, even when documents are paraphrased.

Dr. Uzuner is interested in digital information, intellectual property, and privacy; she studies both technology and policy issues related to dissemination of information and protection of intellectual property and privacy in the digital world. In particular, she applies Natural Language Processing techniques to policy problems and applications that can benefit from textual and linguistic processing. Information retrieval, medical language processing, information extraction, data anonymization, and text summarization are her current foci. She has previously also published in digital government and Internet taxation.

As a doctoral student, Dr. Uzuner was a research assistant at the Infolab Group at Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. She was also a member of the MIT Communications Futures Program (formerly known as the MIT Program on Internet and Telecoms Convergence).

Publications

• Dissertation Abstract

• Uzuner, O. Identifying Expression Fingerprints Using Linguistic Information. Ph. D. Thesis. February 2005.




• Conference and Journal Papers

• Goldstein, I., Arzumtsyan, A., Uzuner, O. (2007) Three Approaches to Automatic Assignment of ICD-9-CM Codes to Radiology Reports. Proceedings of the Fall Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2007), Chicago, IL, November 10-14, 2007; In Pub.
• Uzuner, O., Argamon, S., Karlgren, J. Workshop Report: Stylistics for Text Retrieval in Practice. ACM SIGIR Forum, Vol. 40, No. 2, December 2006. ACM Press.
• Sibanda, T., He, T., Szolovits, P., Uzuner, O. (2006). Syntactically-Informed Semantic Category Recognizer for Discharge Summaries. Proceedings of the Fall Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2006), Washington, DC, November 11-15, 2006.
• Uzuner, O., Szolovits, P., Kohane, I. i2b2 Workshop on Natural Language Processing Challenges for Clinical Records. Proceedings of the Fall Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2006), Washington, DC, November 10-11, 2006.
• Sibanda, T., Uzuner, O. (2006). Role of Local Context in De-identification of Ungrammatical, Fragmented Text. Proceedings of the North American Chapter of Association for Computational Linguistics/Human Language Technology (NAACL-HLT 2006), New York, NY, June 5-7, 2006.
• Katz, B., Marton, G., Borchardt, G., Brownell, A., Felshin, S., Loreto, D., Louis-Rosenberg, J., Lu, B., Mora, F., Stiller, S., Uzuner, O., Wilcox, A. (2005). External Knowledge Sources for Question Answering. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Text REtrieval Conference (TREC2005). Gaithersburg, MD; November 16, 2005
• Uzuner, O., Katz, B. (2005). A Comparative Study of Language Models for Book and Author Recognition. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Volume 3651/2005, pp. 969. Springer-Verlag GmbH. 2005.
• Uzuner, O., Katz, B. (2005). Style vs. Expression in Literary Narratives. Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2005) Workshop on Using Stylistic Analysis of Text for Information Access, Salvador, Brazil, August 15-19, 2005.
• Uzuner, O., Katz, B. (2005). Capturing Expression Using Linguistic Information. Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), Pittsburgh, PA, July 9-13, 2005.
• Uzuner, O., Katz, B., Nahnsen, T. (2005). Using Syntactic Information to Identify Plagiarism. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics Workshop on Educational Applications (ACL 2005), Ann Arbor, MI, June 25-30, 2005.
• Katz, B., Bilotti, M., Felshin, S., Fernandes, A., Hildebrandt, W., Katzir, R., Lin, J., Loreto, D., Marton, G., Mora, F., Uzuner, O. (2004). Answering Multiple Questions On a Topic From Heterogeneous Resources. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2004), Gaithersburg, MD, November 16-19, 2004.
• Uzuner, O., Davis, R., Katz, B. (2004). Using Empirical Methods for Evaluating Expression and Content Similarity. Proceedings of the 37th Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37), Hawaii, HI, January 5-8, 2004. IEEE Computer Society.
• Uzuner, O., Davis, R. (2003). Content and Expression-Based Copy Recognition for Intellectual Property Protection. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management (DRM'03), Washington, DC, October 27, 2003.
• Uzuner, O., Davis, R. (2003). Digital Fingerprinting for Distribution Volume Tracking: Intellectual Property Protection in Wireless Grids. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies (CCCT '03)/ 9th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS '03), Orlando, FL, July 31-August 2, 2003.
• Katz, B., Hurwitz, R., Lin, J., Uzuner, O. (2003). "Better Public Policy Through Natural Language Information Access". Proceedings of The National Conference on Digital Government Research, Boston, MA, May 18-21, 2003.
• Uzuner, O., Field III, F., McKnight, L. (2003). "Policy Implications of Copyright Infringement Detection Systems". Presented at the 7th International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation, Monterey, Mexico, June 10-13, 2003.
• McKnight, L., Anius, D., Uzuner, O.(2002). "Virtual Markets in Wireless Grids: Peering Policy Obstacles" Proceedings of the Thirtieth Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy / 30th Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC-30), Alexandria, VA, September 28-30, 2002.
• Uzuner, O., McKnight, L., (2001). "Sales Taxes on the Internet: When and How to Tax?" Proceedings of the Thirty-fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-34), Wailea, Maui, HI, January 2001. IEEE Computer Society.
• Uzuner, O., Katz, B., and Yuret, D. (1999). "Word Sense Disambiguation for Information Retrieval". Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99), July 18-22, 1999, Orlando, FL; Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, pages 985-986, Menlo Park, CA, July 18-22 1999. AAAI/MIT Press. (AAAI-99 Poster).
• Uzuner, O. (1998). "Word Sense Disambiguation Applied to Information Retrieval". Master's Thesis. MIT. May 1998.
• Uzuner, O., Siegel, M., and Madnick S., (1998). "Sharing Information through trusted agents". Proceedings of Euro-Med-Net Conference, The University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, March 1998.




• Book Chapters

  • McKnight, L., Anius, D., Uzuner, O. Internet Services. "Chapter: Virtual Markets in WIreless Grids: Peering Policy Prospects" in Quality of Service in Grids, Networks and Markets. MIT Press. September 2004. ISBN 0-262-13448-9.
  • Uzuner, O., (1999). "Chapter 3: Ownership Trends" in Trends in Telecommunication Reform: Convergence and Regulation - 2nd edition, 1999. International Telecommunications Union, Geneva, Switzerland; ISBN 92-61-08141-X.




• Recent Presentations

  • Uzuner, O. Natural Language Processing. 2006 Summer Scholars Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG). Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology. August 4, 2006.
  • Uzuner, O., Szolovits, P., Kohane, I. i2b2 First Shared-Task on Natural Language Challenges for Clinical Data. NIH Roadmap. National Centers for Biomedical Computing. 2006 All-Hands Meeting. July 17-19, 2006.




• Lab Abstracts and Student Workshop Papers

  • Shen, Y., Zaccak, G., Katz, B., Luo, Y., Uzuner, O. (2006). Duplicate Removal for Candidate Answer Sentences. Proceedings of the First CSAIL Student Workshop (CSW). September 2006.
  • Uzuner, O., Katz, B. (2005). Using Linguistic Information to Recognize Text Similarity. CSAIL Lab Abstract, 2005.
  • Sibanda, T., Uzuner, O., Szolovits, P. (2005). Classifying Inter-concept Relations in Medical Discharge Summaries Using Linguistic Information. CSAIL Lab Abstract, 2005.
  • Uzuner, O., Sibanda, T., Szolovits, P. (2005). Automatically Generating Medical Ontologies. CSAIL Lab Abstract, 2005.
  • Uzuner, O., Davis, R., Katz, B. (2004). Recognizing Text Similarity. CSAIL Lab Abstract, 2004.
  • Uzuner, O., Davis, R., Katz, B. (2002). Recognizing Text Similarity. AI Lab Abstract, 2002.
  • Uzuner, O., Katz, B. (2001). Non-Verbatim Copyright Infringement Detection for Text. AI Lab Abstract, 2001.
  • Katz, B., Uzuner, O., Yuret, D. (2000). Word Sense Disambiguation For Information Retrieval. AI Lab Abstract, 2000.
  • Katz, B., Uzuner, O. (1998). Word Sense Disambiguation For Information Retrieval. AI Lab Abstract, 1998.

Workshops and Organizing Committee Contributions

• Uzuner, O., Chair , Szolovits, P., Kohane, I. i2b2 Workshop on Natural Language Challenges in Clinical Data. Washington, DC, November 10, 2006.
• Uzuner, O., Argamon, S., Karlgren, J., Eds. and Co-chairs. SIGIR 2006 Workshop on Directions in Computational Analysis of Stylistics in Text Retrieval. Proceedings. Seattle, WA, August 6-11, 2006.
• Uzuner, O., Organizing Committee. Coling-ACL 2006 Workshop on Sentiment and Subjectivity in Text. Sydney, Australia, April 17, 2006.

Current and Past Students

• Goldstein, Ira. Ph.D, expected. SUNY, Albany.
• He, Tian. Master of Engineering, MIT. June 2007. Master's Thesis on Coreference resolution on entitles and events for hospital discharge summaries
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• Luo, Yuan. MS. SUNY, Albany. June 2007.
• Pogosyan, Ashkhen. M.S. SUNY, Albany. December 2006.
• Devanandan, Michael. B.S. Siena College. June 2006.
• Sibanda, Tawanda, Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering, MIT. June 2006. Master's Thesis on Was the Patient Cured? Understanding Semantic Categories and Their Relationships in Patient Records.