Mariana Casella dos Santos is a medical doctor and researcher specializing in biomedical ontologies and natural language processing. She has over 15 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences on topics related to using ontologies to enhance natural language processing for medical applications. She has also presented her research at several industry conferences to share her work on applying ontologies and terminology standards to challenges in fields such as clinical documentation and data integration.

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Mariana Casella dos Santos, MD
Address:Zwijnaardsesteenweg 178,9000 Gent, Belgium
Telephone: +32 (0) 498979577
E-mail: marianacasella@gmail.com
Date of birth: 02/06/1975
Publications
 [FSC02] Alan Flett, Mariana Casella dos Santos, Werner Ceusters. Some Ontology
Engineering Processes and their Supporting Technologies. Siguença, Spain, October
2002. EKAW 2002
 [VSDSC03] Jean-Luc Verschelde, Mariana Casella dos Santos, Tom Deray, Barry Smith
and Werner Ceusters. Ontology assisted database integration to support natural
language processing and biomedical data-mining. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics
– JIB, January 2004
 [SFSS04] Jonathan Simon, James Matthew Fielding, Mariana Casella dos Santos, Barry
Smith. Reference Ontologies for Biomedical Ontology Integration and Natural Language
Processing. EuroMISE 2004. Prague, Czech Republic. April 2004.
 [SD05] Mariana Casella dos Santos and Christoffel Dhaen. An Ontological Layer for
Decision Support Data and Task Integration. The Journal on Information Technology in
Healthcare, Volume: 3 issue: 1, February 2005
 [SMD06] Mariana Casella dos Santos, Frank Montyne and Christoffel Dhaen. Medical
Natural Language Processing Enhancing Drug Ordering and Coding. M-Health: Emerging
Mobile Health Systems – Springer chapter 10, 2006.
 [SDFC04] Mariana Casella dos Santos, Christoffel Dhaen, James Matthew Fielding and
Werner Ceusters. Philosophical Scrutiny for Run-Time Support of Application Ontologies.
International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS) 2004.
Turin, Italy November 2004
 [SFS05] Jonathan Simon, Matthew James Fielding, Mariana Casella dos Santos. The Use
of Formal Ontology to Increase the Adaptability, Capacity and Efficiency of Natural
Language Processing Software, 2005
 [SDDGD05] Mariana Casella dos Santos, Christoffel Dhaen, David Decraene, Marjan van
Gurp, Tom Deray, Gloria Mason, Randy Eccles and Jennifer Smith. The Methodology
behind the Military Health System Conceptual Framework and Core Ontology. For the
Composite Health Care system II (CHCSII) Terminology Service Bureau, prepared for
the CHCSII Program Office and the MHS Clinical Information Technology Program Office,
September 2005.
 [VDHS06] Marjan Van Gurp, Manuel Decoene, Marnix Holvoet, Mariana Casella dos
Santos. LinkBase, a Philosophically-inspired Ontology for NLP/NLU Applications.
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Formal Biomedical Knowledge
Representation: “Biomedical Ontology in Action” (KR-MED 2006), Baltimore, Maryland,
pp 67-75. (Electronic publication: http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-
aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-222 , 2006)
 [SFSS06] Jonathan Simon, Mariana Casella dos Santos, Matthew James Fielding, Barry
Smith. Formal ontology for natural language processing and the integration of
biomedical databases, in International Journal of Medical Informatics 75(3-4):224-
31 · March 2006
 [FS06] James R. Flanagan, Mariana Casella dos Santos. Natural Language Processing to
Support the Dissemination and Utility of the SNOMED CT Post-coordination Model.
Forthcoming.
 [DS06] David Decraene, Mariana Casella dos Santos. Formal Guidelines for the
Identification of Ontological Primitives. Forthcoming.
 [SFD07] Mariana Casella dos Santos, James R. Flanagan, Karen Doyle. From Free Text
to continuity of Care Record: Resolving the Semantic Interoperability Dilema.
Proceedings of AHIMA’ 79th Convention, 2007.
 [VHS] Marjan Van Gurp, Marnix Holvoet, Mariana Casella dos Santos. LinKBase® and
SNOMED: Some Distinct Features and Impact on NLP, in: Ronald Cornet & Kent A.
Spackman (eds), KR-MED 2008, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on
Knowledge Representation in Medicine on Representing and sharing knowledge using
SNOMED, Arizona Grand Resort, Phoenix, Arizona, May 31-June 2, 2008, pp. 23-29

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Public Speaking Experience
 AHIMA’ 79th Convention, 2007 - From Free Text to continuity of Care Record: Resolving
the Semantic Interoperability Dilema.
 APIII 2007 – CAP Today/CAP Focus Session, “Building an Ontology of Adverse
Event and Near Miss Data: Information Gleaned from the Patient Safety Event
Taxonomy (PSET) Project”.
 Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC)– Natural Language
Processing Use case Requirements Workshop, November 2006, “Applications of Ontologies,
Lexicons and Terminologies to NLP/NLU”.
 KR MED 2006 “Biomedical Ontology in Action” – Workshop of AMIA Knowledge
representation Working Group, “LinKBase a Philosophically-Inspired Ontology for NLP/NLU
Applications”.
 National Center for Biomedical Ontology – Workshop on Ontology of Images March 2006,
“Bootstrapping an Image Ontology”.
 HIMSS 2006 HL7 Booth Presentation, “From Free Text to CDA, Extraction of Key Medical
Elements”.
 AHIMA 2005 National Meeting – Clinical Vocabularies mapping Methods Symposium,
“DoD’s TSB – MHS Ontology Methods of Creation, Maintenance and Extraction”.
 NOESIS Seminar on Ontologies in Medicine: Conceptualization and Usage February 2005,
“PALLIANET Ontology: Design and Methodology”.
 FOIS 2004, “Philosophical Scrutiny for Run-Time Support of Application Ontologies”.
 AMIA 2003 National Meeting, “Workshop on Medical Ontologies”.
 EKAW 2002, “Some Ontology Engineering Processes and their Supporting Technologies”.
 Nuance Research Conference (NRC) 2011, “Automated natural language rules detection for
golden corpus development”
 Nuance Research Conference (NRC) 2012, “A CLU Data Warehouse for Nuance’s
Healthcare Research Content”