LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- A general idea of what Natural Language Processing (NLP) is.
- A knowledge of the ethical implications of data reuse in NLP.
- Knowledge of where to get text for NLP.
- How to use and learn more about some basic NLP techniques.
PRESENTER(S)
Seth Russell, MS
Research Instructor, Division of Internal Medicine, University of Colorado
As an informatician and experienced software engineer, Seth Russell, MS has been involved in the crucial effort of improving health care and reducing health care costs through the appropriate use of information technology. Some of his works include the R package "Pediatric Complex Chronic Conditions" a tool for scoring pediatric patients based on chronic conditions, big data education materials for non-technical audiences: "Co-Designing Learning Materials to Empower Laypersons to Better Understand Big Data and Big Data Methods", privacy protection through synthetic data generation, and most recently working on some top secret NLP information extraction tools and the National COVID Cohort Collaborative. While at CU Anschutz, Mr. Russell has been part of Data Science to Patient value Analytics Core and the ACCORDS Data Science Program.