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Lawrence Cavedon
Senior Researcher
Victoria Research Laboratory
Dr. Lawrence Cavedon is a Senior Research at NICTA's Victoria Research Laboratory. He is a member of the Machine Learning Research Group and works in the Health Business Theme.
Lawrence's current research at NICTA is focused on text mining for biomedical applications, mainly in collaboration with biomedical and health organisations, including: Alfred Health, Melbourne Health, the Peter Macallum Cancer Research Centre, the Human Variome Project, and the Global Evidence Mapping Initiative. A specific current project is to develop text processing techniques to automatically detect evidence of invasive fungal infection from radiology reports. I also retain a research interest in spoken dialogue processing.
Prior to joining NICTA, Lawrence spent 3 years as a Senior Researcher at Stanford University, in the Center for the Study of Language and Information. During that time he worked on developing practical speech-based dialogue systems, and collaborated with organizations such as Boeing, NASA, Bosch, and VW America. Prior to that, he worked in the Advanced Technology Group at VerticalNet Inc., a silicon valley company developing new technologies for the large-enterprise space. While there, he led a team that developed the first commercial Semantic Web Services platform, and also led engineering teams working on VerticalNet products. He is currently also a senior lecturer at RMIT University.Dr. Cavedon holds a PhD (1995) in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh, and B.Sc. (Hons) (1986) and M.Sc. (1989) degrees in Computer Science from the University of Melbourne.
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Contact Details:
Email: lawrence.cavedon@nicta.com.au
Phone: (+61 3) 8344-5061
WWW: http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~lcavedon
