Biomedical and Clinical Text Disambiguation

In this project we aimed to disambiguate biomedical jargon with deep learning models that perform both hypernym substitution and acronym and abbreviation resolution. For hypernym substitution used two different approaches that can viewed in the linked manuscript above. For acronym and...

Causal Impact: Recent Abortion Legislation on the Engagement and Sentiment of Privacy Among Twitter Users

In this project, we sought to elucidate if recent abortion legislation i.e. Roe v Wade and Dobbs v Jackson had an impact on the engagement and sentiment of Twitter users. To do this we scraped 14 million tweets and ran unsupervised topic modeling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation. We identified...

Automation of Clinical Note Summary Generation

This is a portion of a project I work on with a startup to automate natural language generation of clinical note summaries. The generation pipeline is proprietary, but this is one example of a function to automate converting the grammatical tense and person of clinical text. This is important in...

Masters of Science - Thesis - MicroRNA Biogenesis