Natural language processing and Information retrieval

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.

• 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

• • 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
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• • 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
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  • 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
  • Electronic Medical Record Search Engine (EMERSE): An Information Retrieval Tool for Supporting Cancer Research
  • JCO clinical cancer informatics
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• • 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
  • Enhancing the Quality of Hierarchic Relations in the National Cancer Institute Thesaurus to Enable Faceted Query of Cancer Registry Data
  • JCO clinical cancer informatics
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• • journal article | 2020
  • Tran T, Kavuluru R
  • Social media surveillance for perceived therapeutic effects of cannabidiol (CBD) products
  • The International journal on drug policy
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• • 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
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• • 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.
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• • 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
  • Validity of Natural Language Processing for Ascertainment of EGFR and ALK Test Results in SEER Cases of Stage IV Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer
  • JCO clinical cancer informatics
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• • 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
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• • journal article | 2019
  • Gallaway MS, Huang B, Chen Q, Tucker T, McDowell J, Durbin E, Siegel D, Tai E
  • Identifying Smoking Status and Smoking Cessation Using a Data Linkage Between the Kentucky Cancer Registry and Health Claims Data
  • JCO Clin Cancer Inform