“What’s Not in Your Data?” — Healthcare, NLP, and Keeping Humans in the Loop, with Prof. Karin Verspoor

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Prof. Karin Verspoor discusses the importance of structured vocabularies in healthcare and the irreplaceable role of domain expertise in AI.

From molecular biology to electronic health records, Prof. Karin Verspoor discusses why structured vocabularies still matter in the age of LLMs — and why domain expertise is the one thing AI can’t replace. GuestProfessor Karin Verspoor, Executive Dean of Computer Science, RMIT University Keywordsnatural language processing, healthcare analytics, structured data, unstructured data, medical terminology, UMLS, SNOMED, ICD, electronic health records, AI governance, human-in-the-loop, knowledge re...

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Host: Jon Scheele

Guest: Prof. Karin Verspoor

Topics covered

• healthcare
• natural language processing
• AI governance
• structured data
• human-in-the-loop

Keywords

• natural language processing
• healthcare analytics
• structured data
• unstructured data
• medical terminology
• AI governance
• human-in-the-loop

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Organizations: RMIT University

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