Diego Mollá Aliod
List of Undergraduate and Postgraduate Projects
Below is a list of possible projects for students at Macquarie University (ENGG, MIT, and MRes). Please contact me for further details.
If you are pursuing a PhD, the MRes projects can be extended to PhD projects.
If you have a project in mind which is not listed here but which is related to my research interests, contact me and chances are that I will be interested too.
Natural Language Processing for Medical Text
- Find Relevant Medical Publications (MIT, MRes)
- Evaluate the Quality of a Search of Medical Documents (MIT, MRes)
Natural Language Processing
- Detect Signs of Feelings of Suicide in Social Media (MIT, MRes)
- Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning for Question Answering and Summarisation (MIT, MRes)
Natural Language Processing for Medical Text
For more background of the kind of research that I am doing on Natural Lanuage Processinf for Medical Text, look at my research webpage on this topic.
Find Relevant Medical Publications
(MIT, MRes)
The goal of this project is to design and apply search technology so that a search retrieves published medical information that is relevant to the query asked by a medical doctor. Examples of medical queries are the titles of the clinical inquiries column of the Journal of Family Practice. You will use these clinical inquiries as your source questions, and you will aim to retrieve documents like those listed in the clinical inquiries, by accessing the MEDLINE database of medical publications through interfaces such as PubMed. You will preferably have knowledge and experience with using Web applications, such as search services. Knowledge of search technology and text processing is also desirable but not essential.
Evaluate the Quality of a Search of Medical Documents
(MIT, MRes)
We have a collection of search queries related to clinical questions and the documents that the search engines returned as relevant. In this project you will implement methods to automatically determine how well the relevant documents fit the target topic, and whether there are any key aspects of the information that are missing.
Natural Language Processing
Detect Signs of Feelings of Suicide in Social Media
(MIT, MRes)
We have a collection of social media posts annotated by the users with labels like "happy", "sad", etc. In this project you will develop technology that analyses the messages in order to detect signs of feelings that might lead to thoughts of suicide. This project is a collaboration between computer scientists and psychologists.
Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning for Question Answering and Summarisation
(MIT, MRes)
Deep learning and reinforcement learning have recently been used successfully in a wide range of applications, many of which are related to text processing tasks. In this project you will explore the use of deep learning or reinforcement learning techniques (or both) in question answering or summarisation such as in the shared tasks organised by BioASQ. You will need to have knowledge of statistical methods and natural language processing, or willingness to learn these, and good programming skills, preferably using the Python programming language and Python packages such as Google's TensorFlow.