[Kristofer Franzén]


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	K r i s t o f e r F r a n z é n
SICS Box 1263 SE-164 29 Kista SWEDEN	phone: +46 (0)8 633 15 37 fax: +46 (0)8 751 72 30 http: www.sics.se/~franzen smtp: franzen at sics.se
I'm a member of the Userware laboratory at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science [SICS]. The main focus of my research is in text analysis. Before joining SICS in 1998, I spent a year as a visiting researcher in the Proteus Project at New York University. That is where I first came to work in the area of Information Extraction. For an introduction to questions that influence and inspire my research, see the manifesto (or this short version in English). My recent research interests also include how methods from Language Engineering can be applied to problems in Bioinformatics and Chemoinformatics, as well as the role of automatic text analysis in Medical Informatics, and for the application area of healtcare. Since December 2007 I am also the coordinator of SICS' focus area SICS Health.
some projects
FetchProt The project FetchProt intends to provide both academia and industry in the biotechnology and life science areas with a publicly available infrastructure for management and retrieval of knowledge about protein functions. The goal is to automatically find, assess, and gather information about proteins with experimentally verified functions, from scientific texts within the areas of molecular biology and bio-chemistry, by developing and applying language technology, and to build infrastructure and knowledge bases to make this information accessible and manageable. Proteinhalt i text (Protein concentration in text) At the intersection of bioinformatics and computational linguistics, the project "Proteinhalt i text" develops methods for automatic identification of entities, and the relations in which they partake, in biomedical text. CLARITY addresses questions in multilingual information access. SICS contribution will be in textual analysis: stylistics and multi-document reporting with filtering functionality. Other partners in the project are University of Sheffield, Tampere University, BBC Monitoring, Alma Media, Tilde, and University of Massachusetts. DEMON (Democracy On-Line) is a cooperative project in part funded by Vinnova. The DEMON system focuses on the interface between citizens and their representatives in some organisation. The main goal of the system is to offer strong support for citizens' active participation in discussions about issues of importance.
some publications
*Franzén et al* 2002** Kristofer Franzén, Gunnar Eriksson, Fredrik Olsson, Lars Asker Per Lidén and Joakim Cöster. 2002. "Protein names and how to find them". In International Journal of Medical Informatics, vol 67/1-3 pp 49 - 61. (Special issue on Natural Language Processing in Biomedical Applications.) Draft version: [ ps \| pdf ] *Olsson et al* 2002 Fredrik Olsson, Gunnar Eriksson, Kristofer Franzén, Lars Asker and Per Lidén. "Notions of Correctness when Evaluating Protein Name Taggers". In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002), Taipei, Taiwan, 24 August - 1 September. [ ps \| pdf ] Lidén et al 2002** Per Lidén, Lars Asker, Gunnar Eriksson, Kristofer Franzén and Fredrik Olsson. 2002. "Protein name tagging for browsing support, active database cross linking, and information retrieval". In Proceedings of Bioinformatics 2002. Bergen, Norway. April. Poster presentation. Abstract: [ pdf ] Poster: [ pdf ] *Eriksson et al* 2002** Gunnar Eriksson, Kristofer Franzén, Fredrik Olsson, Lars Asker and Per Lidén. 2002. "Using Heuristics, Syntax and a Local Dynamic Dictionary for Protein Name Tagging". In Proceedings of Human Language Technology 2002. San Diego, USA. March 24-27. Poster presentation. Draft version of extended abstract: [ ps \| pdf ] *Franzén et al* 2002** Gunnar Eriksson, Kristofer Franzén, Fredrik Olsson, Lars Asker and Per Lidén. 2002. "Exploiting Syntax when Detecting Protein Names in Text". In Proceedings of Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedical Applications. Nicosia, Cyprus. March 8-9. [ ps \| pdf ] Franzén 1999 Kristofer Franzén. 1999. "Adapting an English Information Extraction System to Swedish". In Proceedings of NODALIDA'99 (Nordiska Datorlingvistikdagarna). Trondheim, Norway. December 9-10. [ ps \| pdf ] *Björk et al* 1999** Staffan Björk, Lars-Erik Holmquist, Johan Redström, Ivan Bretan, Rolf Danielsson, Jussi Karlgren and Kristofer Franzén. 1999. "WEST: A Web Browser for Small Terminals." In UIST'99, Proceedings of the 12th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Asheville, NC, USA. November 7-10. [ ps \| pdf ] Karlgren and Franzén 1997 Jussi Karlgren and Kristofer Franzén. 1997. "Verbosity and Interface Design in Information Retrieval". REPTILE working paper; also available as SICS Technical Report T2000:04. [ ps \| html ] Franzén and Karlgren 1997 Kristofer Franzén and Jussi Karlgren. 1997. "Reptile - Retrieval, Extraction, Presentation, Translation of Information using Language Engineering". In Cross-Language Text and Speech Retrieval. Papers from the 1997 AAAI Spring Symposium, AAAI Technical Report SS-97-05. [ ps ]
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