Research Interests:
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Data Mining
Medical and Clinical Informatics
E – Health
E – Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Ph.D. OANA
M. FRUNZA
Research
Projects
1.
My current research interests are related to text
classification, knowledge representation, and information extraction from
clinical, medical, and biomedical textual data. I am currently working on
finishing my PhD thesis entitled “Personalized medicine through automatic extraction of
information from medical texts”.
Some of my research objectives are:
a. Automatically
identifying disease-presence in clinical data;
b. Identifying topic-relevant information
in the life-science literature;
c. Functional genomics;
d. Prediction of existing relations between
medical entities.
2.
Additional research interests involve cross-language
word sense disambiguation using Machine Learning
techniques. My research focus involves Cognates, False Friends, and Partial
Cognates word-pairs between French and English. The tasks that I tackled are the
identification of cognates and false-friend pairs, and the disambiguation of
partial-cognates. Part of this research
involved the development of a tool that uses part of the research that I did on
this topic. The tool is called CLPA – Cross-Language Pair Annotation tool.
It is a java free-for-download project designed to annotate French texts with
Cognates and False Friends words. More information and a snapshot of the tool’s
GUI can be found here.
3.
Multilingual text processing and information
extraction systems are also part of my research interests. I am a member of the
BALIE project. My main contribution
consists in adding the Romanian-language capabilities to the project.
I am
currently affiliated with the Text Analysis and MAchine
LEarning (TAMALE)
Group and a member of the Natural Language Processing (Cookie) Group the at University of Ottawa, Canada.
The TAMALE
group holds weekly interesting seminars. The schedule can be found here.
My
supervisor is Dr. Diana Inkpen
Some
NLP resources:
Teaching
University
of Ottawa Courses
ITI1121 Introduction to Computing II Winter 2012
CSI3130 Database II Fall
2011
Programme des mini-cours
d’enrichissement “Le jeu et
l’intelligence artificielle”, mai, 2008-2012
Teaching Assistant
Base de données
(CSI2532), Winter 2011
Professional
Practice in Computer Science (CSI2911), Winter 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
Introduction
to Computing I (ITI1120), Fall 2007/2008/2009
Conception et analyse des algorithmes (CSI2501), Winter 2007
Structures
Discrètes (CSI3505), Fall 2006
Formal
Languages (CSI3104), Winter 2005, 2011
My former University
from Romania “Babes-Bolyai”
Univ. Cluj-Napoca
Here you can find some interesting
information about Romania, my home
country.
A
place where you might find a cool and interesting talk: TED - Ideas worth spreading.
Contact
School of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science (SEECS),
University of Ottawa
800 King Edward, P.O. Box 450, Stn A,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5
Tel: (613) 562-5800 ext. 2140
Office: SITE, Room 5-010
Email:ofrunza@site.uottawa.ca