Books

1.      Oana Magdalena Frunza, “Cognates, False Friends, and Partial Cognates”, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co., Germany, March 2008.

 

          

         Book Chapters

 

1.   Oana Frunza and Diana Inkpen, “Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Techniques help achieve a better medical practice”, Medical Applications of Intelligent Data Analysis: Research advancements (R. Magdalena, E. Soria,J. Guerrero, J. Gómez-Sanchis and A.J. Serrano), IGI Global, in press.

 

 

            Publications in International Journals

 

1.      Oana Frunza, Diana Inkpen, Stan Matwin, William Klement, and Peter O’Blenis, “Exploiting the Systematic Review Protocol for Classification of Medical Abstracts”, Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 51, 17-25, 2011, article.

 

2.      Stan Matwin, Alexandre Kouznetsov, Diana Inkpen, Oana Frunza, Peter O’Blenis, "Performance of SVM and Bayesian Classifiers on the Systematic Review Classification Task (Letter to the Editor)", Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), 18, 104-105, 2011, article.

 

3.      Stan Matwin, Alexandre Kouznetsov, Diana Inkpen, Oana Frunza, and Peter O’Blenis, “A new algorithm for reducing the workload of experts in performing systematic reviews”, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), 17, 446-453, 2010, article.

 

4.      Oana Frunza, Diana Inkpen, and Thomas Tran, “A Machine Learning Approach for Identifying Disease-Treatment Relations in Short Texts”, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 23(6), 801-814, 2011, article.

 

5.      Oana Frunza and Diana Inkpen, “Identification and Disambiguation of Cognates, False Friends, and Partial Cognates Using Machine Learning Techniques”, Vol. 1, No. 1, International Journal of Linguistics, December 2009, article

 

6.      Oana Frunza and Diana Inkpen, “Disambiguation of Partial Cognates”, Language Resources and Evaluation, Springer, Vol. 42, No. 3, September 2008.

 

 

Publications in International Conferences and Workshops

 

1.   Oana Frunza and Diana Inkpen, “Extracting relations between diseases, treatments, and tests from clinical data”, The 24th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence – Canadian AI 2011, St. John, NB, May 2011, pdf.file

2.      Oana Frunza and Diana Inkpen, “Identifying and classifying semantic relations between medical concepts in clinical data (i2b2 Challenge)”, Forth i2b2 Shared-Task and Workshop – Challenges in Natural Language Processing for Clinical Data, Washington, DC, November 2010, pdf.file

 

3.      Oana Frunza, Diana Inkpen, and Stan Matwin,  “Building Systematic Reviews Using Automatic Text Classification Techniques”. In the Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), Beijing, China, 2010, pdf.file

 

4.      Oana Frunza and Diana Inkpen, “Extraction of Disease-Treatment Semantic Relations from Biomedical Sentences”. BioNLP Workshop in conjunction with ACL-2010, Uppsala, Sweden, July, 2010, pdf.file

 

5.      Alexandre Kouznetsov, Stan Matwin, Diana Inkpen, Amir Razavi, Oana Frunza, Morvarid Sehatkar and Leanne Seaward. “Classifying Biomedical Abstracts Using Committees of Classifiers and Collective Ranking Techniques”, The  22th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence – Canadian AI 2009, Kelowna, BC, May 2009, pdf.file

 

6.      Oana Frunza and Diana Inkpen, “Representation and classification techniques for clinical data focused on obesity and its co-morbidities” Second i2b2 Shared-Task and Workshop – Challenges in Natural Language Processing for Clinical Data, Washington, DC, November 2008

 

7.      Oana Frunza and Diana Inkpen, “Textual Information in predicting functional properties of the genes”, BioNLP Workshop in conjunction with ACL-2008, Columbus Ohio, June 2008, pdf.file

 

8.      Oana Frunza, “A Trainable Tokenizer, solution for multilingual texts and compound expression tokenization”, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC-2008, Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008, pdf.file

 

9.      Oana Frunza and Diana Inkpen, “A Tool for Detecting French-English Cognates and False Friends”, Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, TALN-2007, Toulouse, France, pdf.file

 

10.  Oana Frunza and Diana Inkpen, "Semi-Supervised Learning of Partial Cognates using Bilingual Bootstrapping", in Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics, COLING-ACL 2006, Sydney, Australia, Aug. 2006, pdf.file

 

11.  Diana Inkpen, Oana Frunza and Greg Kondrak “Automatic Identification of Cognates and False Friends in French and English”, RANLP 2005, Bulgaria, Sept. 2005, pp. 251-257, pdf file

 

12.   Oana Frunza, Diana Inkpen and David Nadeau “A Text Processing Tool for Romanian Language”, EuroLan   2005, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

 

 

Posters

 

1.      Oana Frunza, Diana Inkpen, and Stan Matwin, “Computers can assist in retrieving and assessing new information in the medical domain”, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Keystone, Colorado, Oct. 2008, pdf.file

 

2.      Oana Frunza and Diana Inkpen, “Does pain hurt in both French and English?”, 1st Place Graduate Studies in Computer Science  Competition, University of Ottawa, Canada, Feb. 2007, pdf.file

 

                  

         Invited Talks

 

1.     “Does pain hurt in both French and English?”  IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Ottawa Chapter, University of Ottawa, December 2007

 

2.     “Embedding Machine Learning in a Systematic Review System”, TAMALE Seminars, University of Ottawa, March 2007

 

3.     “Automatic identification of Cognates and False Friends in French and English”, TAMALE Seminars, University of Ottawa, February 2006

 

        

Theses

Ph.D. Thesis

                   “Personalized Medicine through Automatic Extraction of Information from Medical Texts”

            School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), University of Ottawa, Canada, April 2012

 

MSc. Thesis

            “Automatic Identification of Cognates, False Friends, and Partial Cognates”,

School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada, October 2006

 

                        Bachelor Thesis                                                      

                        “Med-Expert an Medical Expert System”

Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, June 2004

 

 

         Projects

                       CLPA – Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Tool designed for Cognates and False Friends Annotations on French Texts

                       RO-BALIE – A Romanian Text Processing Tool

 

 

 

 

Attended Summer Schools:

     ACL/HCSNet Advanced Program in Natural Language Processing, Melbourne, Australia, July 2006

     EUROLAN 2005 “THE MULTILINGUAL WEB: Resources, Technologies, and Prospects”, Cluj-Napoca,  Romania

                 EUROLAN 2003 “THE SEMANTIC WEB AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY”, Bucharest, Romania