Prof. Regina Barzilay

School of Engineering Distinguished Professor for AI and Health
Microsoft Faculty Fellow

Primary DLC

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

MIT Room: 32-G468

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Language and Learning
Natural Language Processing
Computing
Computer Text Recognition
Big Data

Recent Work

  • Video

    Regina Barzilay - 2016-Digital-Health_Conf-videos

    September 14, 2016Conference Video Duration: 21:22

    How Can Natural Language Processing Help Cure Cancer?

    Despite billions invested in cancer research, our understanding of the disease, treatment, and prevention remains limited. Natural language processing (NLP) can offer new insights by mining the rich but underutilized information encoded in physicians’ observations and clinical findings, which are still primarily recorded as free-form text. NLP-based models can make a difference in clinical practice by improving models of disease progression, preventing over-treatment, and narrowing down on a cure.

    2016 MIT Digital Health Conference