Profile

• Noemie Elhadad, PhD

• Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics Natural language processing & data mining for clinical and health consumer texts 622 West 168th Street, VC-5 New York, NY 10032 Phone: (212) 305 0509 Email: noemie @ dbmi.columbia.edu Website

• Education
• Ph.D., 2006 Columbia University,
  M.Sc., 2000 Columbia University,
  
• Research Interests
• My research interests are in natural language processing, with particular focus on text summarization and discourse-level structuring of information. I investigate ways in which clinical texts (these include scientific articles, medical textbooks, and patient notes) and health consumer texts (health news stories, educational health documents, and peer-patient forum posts) can be processed automatically to enhance access to relevant information for physicians, health researchers, and health consumers alike.
• Current Projects  

  HARVEST
  Description: An intelligent summarization system for the electronic health record.
  Sponsor: National Library of Medicine
  Dates: 2009-

  Phenotypic Characterization of Autism Spectrum Disorders through NLP Analysis
  Description: Speech and language analysis of video recordings of patients on the autism disorder spectrum.
  Sponsor: Simons Foundation
  Dates: 2009-2011

  HealthTermFinder
  Description: Automatic tagging of health terms in news stories.
  Sponsor: None
  Dates: 2008-

  Structuring and Searching the Content of Health Related Web Posts
  Description: Intelligent search tool for breast cancer forums. The search relies on automatically induced psycho-social information conveyed in posts.
  Sponsor: None
  Dates: 2008-
• Courses  

  G4002 - Computational Methods in Biomedical Informatics (Spring)
• Selected Publications  

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• Committees  

  Knowledge Engineering Review Editorial board member (2009-2012).
  DBMI Training Committee (2007-).
  DBMI Admission Committee (2007-).
  DBMI Research IT Committee (2009-).