Welcome!
Hua is at Vanderbilt now!

I am an assistant professor at Department of Biomedical Infomratics at Vanderbilt University. My research area is natural language processing (NLP) and text mining in the biomedical domain.

Research Interests
  • NLP of clinical notes
  • Text mining of biomedical literature
  • Healthcare data mining

  • Selected Publications
    1. Xu H, Stetson P, Friedman C. Methods for building sense inventories of clinical abbreviations. JAMIA 2008 (accepted)

    2. Xu H, Stetson P, Friedman C. A Study of Abbreviations in Clinical Notes. (In Press) AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2007.

    3. Xu H, Fan JW, Hripcsak G, Mendonca EA, Markatou M, Friedman C. Gene symbol disambiguation using knowledge-based profiles. Bioinformatics, 2007 23(8):1015-1022.

    4. Xu H, Jung-Wei Fan, Friedman C. Combine multiple evidence for gene symbol disambiguation. ACL 2007, BioNLP Workshop, p41-48.

    5. Xu H, Markatou M, Dimova R, Liu H, Friedman C. Machine learning and word sense disambiguation in the biomedical domain: design and evaluation issues. BMC Bioinformatics. 2006; 7:334.

    6. Xu, H, Anderson, K, Grann, V, Friedman, C. Facilitating Cancer Research using Natural Language Processing of Pathology Reports. In Proceedings of Medinfo. 2004:565-72.

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