Mission LATEST NEWS view all Department of Medicine Pilot Project award to use natural language processing in the prediction of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients. This award is a collaboration with Dr. Farrukh Koraishy (Nephrology). 2024-01-01 National Science Foundation (NSF) award for research to investigate live medical data against privacy laws. 2023-09-01 PROJECTS view all A Framework for Investigating Live Medical Data against Privacy Laws This research project is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) under the award CNS-2335686. We are developing a framework to assess and improve the privacy and security of mobile health applications (apps) that collect and use personal health data. Tracking Semantic Change in Medical Information This research project was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) under the award SES-1834597 from May 2018 to March 2022. Changes in the meaning of information as it passes through cyberspace can mislead those who access the information. We develop new datasets and algorithms to identify and categorize medical information based on whether it remains true to the original meaning or undergoes distortion. Semantics of Clinical Language Hospitals amass crucial textual data for healthcare, often in disorganized forms within Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. The semantics of language used in such texts differs a lot from ordinary English. Understanding the domain-specific semantics has consequential applications in streamlining health data, reducing redundancy, identifying errors, and retrieving and preserving valuable information. PUBLICATIONS view all Paying Attention to Deflections: Mining Pragmatic Nuances for Whataboutism Detection in Online Discourse Khiem Phi, Noushin Faramarzi, Chenlu Wang, Ritwik Banerjee arXiv, 12/2024 Claim Extraction and Dynamic Stance Detection in COVID-19 Tweets Noushin Faramarzi, Fateme Chaleshtori, Hossein Shirazi, Indrakshi Ray, Ritwik Banerjee Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, 04/2023 Context-aware Medication Event Extraction from Unstructured Text Noushin Faramarzi, Meet Patel, Sai Bandarupally, Ritwik Banerjee Proceedings of the 5th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop, 07/2023