Dr Stephen Anthony

Research Fellow

BS (Syd) Ph.D. (Syd)

School/Unit

Biomedical Text Processing
Centre for Health Informatics

Broad Research Areas

Biomedical Text Processing
Decision Support Systems
Health Information Systems
Natural Language Processing

Specific Research Keywords

Biological Event Extraction
Computational Discourse and Pragmatics
Distributed Search Technologies
Document Classification
Information Retrieval
Named Entity Recognition
Semantic Analysis
Text Summarisation
Question Answering

Research Interests

Stephen's research interests span many sub-areas within the field of Natural Language Processing including biomedical text mining, ontology, discourse and dialogue modelling for conversational agents, thesaurus and lexicon extraction, word sense disambiguation, and semantic role labelling. Recent research contributions are in the area of information extraction and semantic classification of sentences in the medical domain for Evidence-based Medicine. This includes the development of a framework for automatically extracting key facts and findings from clinical trials potentially useful for decision support at point-of-care, multi-document summarisation, question answering, search, and related activities.

Society Memberships & Professional Activities

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Australian Computer Society (ACS)
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

Funding Sources

ARC Discovery Grant
Faculty of Medicine Research Grant

Key works/Publications

Anthony S., V. Sintchenko, and E. Coiera. Text Mining for Discovery of Host-Pathogen Interactions. In Infectious Disease Informatics, V. Sintchenko (Ed.), Springer Verlag, In Press.

Anthony S. Question-Based Semantics: Expectations and Explanations. Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney, Australia, 2009.

Anthony S. and J. Patrick. Dependency Based Logical Form Transformations. ACL Senseval-3 Workshop on Identification of Logical Forms, Barcelona, Spain, 2004.

Anthony S. and J. Patrick. Representation of Lexical Knowledge. 2nd International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon, Geneva, Switzerland, 2003.

Patrick J., S. Anthony, H. Qiao, and C. Charles. Computational Semantic Analysis for Appraising Change in Language Usage. International Workshop on Computational Semantics, IWCS4, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2001.

Anthony S. and J. Patrick. Discourse Semantics for the Analysis of Change in Language. Computing Arts, Digital Resources for the Humanities, Sydney, Australia, 2001.

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Dr. Stephen Anthony

Research Fellow

Centre for Health Informatics
WS 23
Level 1 AGSM
University of New South Wales
SYDNEY NSW 2052

T +61 (2) 9385 8890
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E s.anthony _at_ unsw.edu.au