Harnessing social media data for pharmacovigilance: a review of current state of the art, challenges and future directions

D Pappa, LK Stergioulas - International Journal of Data Science and …, 2019 - Springer
The ever-increasing supply of information combined with the growing knowledge elicitation
capabilities of key emerging technologies presents pharmacovigilance with enormous …

Future paradigms of automated processing of business documents

M Cristani, A Bertolaso, S Scannapieco… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper we summarize the results obtained so far in the communities interested in the
development of automated processing techniques as applied to business documents, and …

[HTML][HTML] From narrative descriptions to MedDRA: automagically encoding adverse drug reactions

C Combi, M Zorzi, G Pozzani, U Moretti… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Context The collection of narrative spontaneous reports is an irreplaceable source for the
prompt detection of suspected adverse drug reactions (ADRs). In such task qualified domain …

Normalizing Spontaneous Reports Into MedDRA: Some Experiments With

C Combi, M Zorzi, G Pozzani… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Text normalization into medical dictionaries is useful to support clinical tasks. A typical
setting is pharmacovigilance (PV). The manual detection of suspected adverse drug …

Terminology expansion via co-occurrence analysis of large clinical real-world datasets

M Kreuzthaler, B Pfeifer, S Schulz - 2022 IEEE 10th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A huge clinical problem list whose entries had been annotated with ICD-10 codes was used
as a resource for harvesting clinical terminology, in particular those expressions that do not …

Mapping free text into MedDRA by natural language processing: a modular approach in designing and evaluating software extensions

M Zorzi, C Combi, G Pozzani, U Moretti - Proceedings of the 8th ACM …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
MagiCoder is a Natural Language Processing application designed to extract MedDRA
terms from narrative clinical text. MagiCoder has been developed to support the work of …

Protecting the environment: a multi-agent approach to environmental monitoring

M Cristani, L Pasetto, C Tomazzoli - Procedia Computer Science, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper we discuss a transition model from commonly adopted models of data
gathering, transfer and management for environmental monitoring towards more …

A simple algorithm for the lexical classification of comparable adjectives

M Cristani, I Chitó, C Tomazzoli, M Zorzi - Procedia Computer Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Lexical classification is one of the most widely investigated fields in (computational)
linguistic and Natural language Processing. Adjectives play a significant role both in …

Making sentiment analysis algorithms scalable

M Cristani, M Cristani, A Pesarin, C Tomazzoli… - Current Trends in Web …, 2018 - Springer
In this paper we introduce a simplified approach to sentiment analysis: a lexicon-driven
method based upon only adjectives and adverbs. This method is compared in cross …

Automatic generation of dictionaries: The journalistic lexicon case

M Cristani, C Tomazzoli, M Zorzi - … in Artificial Intelligence. From Theory to …, 2019 - Springer
Text normalisation is an important task in the context of Natural Language Processing. By
normalisation, free text is mapped into dictionaries, ie indexed collections of locutions …