Noémie Elhadad Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical Informatics Columbia University 622 W. 168th Street, VC-5 New York, NY 10032 noemie @ dbmi.columbia.edu

My research interests are in natural language processing, in particular text summarization and statistical text generation.

Until Fall 2005, I was a Computer Science doctoral student at Columbia University in the Natural Language Processing group headed by Prof. Kathleen McKeown. In 2006, I was an assistant professor in the Computer Science department of The City College of New York. I moved to DBMI in Fall 2007.

Data
Text ordering for text summarization
Sentence alignment for monolingual comparable corpora

Publications

• Sigfried Gold, Noémie Elhadad, Xinxin Zhu, James Cimino, and George Hripcsak,
  "Extracting Structured Medication Event Information from Discharge Summaries",
  to appear AMIA'08 Annual Symposium. Washigton, DC. 2008.
   
• Patrick McCormick, Noémie Elhadad, and Peter Stetson,
  "Use of Semantic Features to Classify Patient Smoking Status",
  to appear AMIA'08 Annual Symposium. Washington, DC. 2008.
   
• Tielman Van Vleck, Adam Wilcox, Peter Stetson, Stephen Johnson, and Noémie Elhadad,
  "Content and Structure of Clinical Problem Lists: A Corpus Analysis", to appear AMIA'08 Annual Symposium. Washington, DC. 2008.
   
• Xiaoyan Wang, Amy Chused, Noémie Elhadad, Carol Friedman, and Marianthi Markatou,
  "Automated Knowledge Acquisition from Clinical Narrative Reports",
  to appear AMIA'08 Annual Symposium. Washington, DC. 2008.
   
• Noémie Elhadad and Komal Sutaria,
  "Mining a Lexicon of Technical Terms and Lay Equivalents",
  ACL BioNLP Workshop, pp. 49-56, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic.
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• Noémie Elhadad,
  "Comprehending Technical Texts: Predicting and Defining Unfamiliar Terms",
  AMIA Annual Symposium, pp. 239-243, 2006, Washington, DC.
  PDF
   
• Noémie Elhadad,
  "User-Sensitive Text Summarization: Application to the Medical Domain",
  Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University, January 2006.
  PDF
   
• Noémie Elhadad, Kathleen McKeown, David Kaufman, and Desmond Jordan,
  "Facilitating Physicians' Access to Information via Tailored Text Summarization",
  AMIA Annual Symposium, 2005, Washington, DC.
  PS, PDF
   
• Noémie Elhadad, Min-Yen Kan, Judith Klavans, and Kathleen McKeown,
  "Customization in a Unified Framework for Summarizing Medical Literature",
  Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2005, 33(2):179-198.
  in press
   
• Noémie Elhadad,
  "User-Sensitive Text Summarization",
  AAAI Doctoral Consortium, pp. 987-988, 2004, San Jose, CA.
  PS, PDF
   
• Regina Barzilay and Noémie Elhadad,
  "Sentence Alignment for Monolingual Comparable Corpora",
  Proc. of EMNLP, pp. 25-32, 2003, Sapporo, Japan.
  PS, PDF
   
• Kathleen McKeown, Noémie Elhadad and Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou,
  "Leveraging a Common Representation for Personalized Search and Summarization in a Medical Digital Library",
  Proc. of JCDL, pp. 159-170, 2003, Houston, TX.
  PS, PDF
   
• Regina Barzilay, Noémie Elhadad and Kathleen McKeown,
  "Inferring Strategies for Sentence Ordering in Multidocument News Summarization",
  Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2002, 17:35-55.
  PS, PDF
   
• Simone Teufel and Noémie Elhadad,
  "Collection and Linguistic Processing of a Large-scale Corpus of Medical Articles",
  In Proc. of LREC, pp. 1214-1218, 2002, Canary Islands, Spain.
  PS, PDF
   
• Noémie Elhadad and Kathleen McKeown,
  "Towards Generating Patient Specific Summaries of Medical Articles",
  In Proc. of NAACL Workshop on Automatic Summarization, pp. 31-39, 2001, Pittsburgh, PA.
  PS, PDF
   
• Regina Barzilay, Noémie Elhadad and Kathleen McKeown,
  "Sentence Ordering in Multidocument Summarization",
  In Proc. of HLT, pp. 318-324, 2001, San Diego, CA.
  PS, PDF