Tamang S, Milstein A, Sorensen H, Pedersen L,
Mackey L, Bettonworth J, Jansen L, Shah NH; 2015. Improving
the foundation of population-based spending arrangements by
predicting "cost blooms"; 2015. Big Data in Medicine[abstract]
Tamang S, Gaskin G, Patel M, Shah NH; 2015.
Shifting the Paradigm for Quality
Measurement. AcademyHealth Research
Meeting [presentation]
Tamang S, Patel MI, Blayney DW,
Kuznetsov J, Finlayson SG, Vetteth Y, Shah NH; 2015.
Detecting Unplanned Care from Clinician Notes in Electronic Health Records Journal of Oncology Practice [abstract]
Tamang S, Podchiyska T, Gyuang E, Hernandez-Boussard T, Shah NH; 2015. Electronic phenotypting for measuring quality of care. Americal Medical Informatics Association Joint Summit: Clinical Research Informatics. [abstract]
Harpaz R, Callahan A, Tamang S, Low Y, Odgers D, Finlayson S, Jung K, LePendu P, Shah, NH. 2014. Text mining for adverse drug events: the promise, challenges, and state of the art. Drug Safety; 37 (10): 777-790. [paper]
Tamang S, Patel MI, Finlayson S, Chen X, Kuznetsov JL, Blayney DW, Shah N. 2014. Assessing the true nature of unplanned cancer care. American Society of Clinical Oncology Quality Care Symposium. [abstract][ASCO Post highlight]
Hernandez-Boussard T, Tamang S, Brooks JD, Blayney DW, Shah N. 2014. Measurement of urinary incontinence after prostate surgery from data-mining electronic health records (EHR). American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Symposium. [abstract]
Ji H, Cassidy T, Li Q, Tamang S. 2014. Tackling representation, annotation and classification challenges for temporal knowledge base population. Knowledge and Information Systems; 41 (3), 611-646. [paper]
Tamang S, Parsons S. 2013. Semiparametric clustering methods for modeling chronic disease dynamics. International Conference on Machine Learning, Role of Machine Learning in Transforming Healthcare. [paper]
Tamang S, Parsons S. 2013. Unsupervised modeling of disease dynamics. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Spring Symposium, Workshop on Data Driven Wellness: From Self-Tracking to Behavior Change. [paper]
Tamang S, Chen Z and Ji H. 2012. CUNY Blender TAC-KBP2012 Entity linking system and slot filling validation system. Proc. Text Analysis Conference, NIST (TAC2012). [paper][slides]
Tamang S, Ji H. 2012. Relabeling noisy distant supervision data for temporal knowledge base population. Proc. of The 2012 Conference of the NAACL-HLT, Workshop on Automatic Knowledge Base Construction and Web-scale Knowledge Extraction.[pdf][poster]
Tamang S, Parsons S. 2011. Using semi-parametric clustering applied to EHR time series data. Proc. KDD Workshop on Data Mining for Medicine and Healthcare.[paper][poster]
Artiles J, Li Q, Cassidy T, Tamang S, Ji H. 2011. CUNY Blender TAC-KBP 2011 Temporal slot filling system description. Proc. Text Analytics Conference.[paper].
Tamang S, Ji H. 2011. Adding smarter systems instead of human annotators: re-ranking for slot filling system combination. Proc. of The 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Workshop on Search and Mining Entity-Relationship Data.[paper]
Snover M, Li X, Lin W, Chen Z, Tamang S, Ge M, Lee A, Li Q, Li H, Anzaroot S, Ji H. 2011. Cross-lingual slot filling from comparable corpora. Proc. ACL2011 Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora.[paper]
Anzaroot S, Artiles J, Li H, Li Q, Chen Z, Tamang S, Ji H, Deng H, Han J. 2011. Search, mining and browsing self-Boosting multi-dimensional text-rich information networks. The Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance Annual Meeting.
Chen Z, Tamang S, Lee A, Ji H. 2011. A toolkit for knowledge base population. Proc. ACM Special Interest Group Information Retrieval.[paper]
Chen Z, Tamang S, Lee A, Li X, Lin W, Artiles J, Snover M, Passantino M, Ji H. 2010. CUNY Blender TAC-KBP2010 entity linking and slot filling system description. Proc. Text Analytics Conference. [paper][slides]
Chen Z, Tamang S, Lee A, Li X, Passantino M, Ji H. 2010. Top-down and bottom-up: a combined approach to slot filling. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.[paper]
Tamang S, Kopec D, McCofie T, Levy K. Developing health surveillance networks: an adaptive approach. The Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare. 2006; 4(4): 210--221 [paper]
Kopec D, Tamang S, Levy K, Eckhardt R, Shagas G. 2006. The state of the art in the reduction of medical errors. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.
Tamang S, Kopec D, McCofie T, Levy K. 2005. Improving palliative care: and information systems approach. The Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare; 3(3): 159--171. [paper]
Nidetz A, Fishman E, Jacobs M, Daniels C, Tamang S. Jan 2005. Palliative care management services in a Medicare Social HMO. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management; 29(1). [paper]
Invited Publications
Harpaz R, Callahan A, Tamang S, Low Y, Odgers D, Finlayson S, Jung K, LePendu P, Shah NH. 2014. Text mining for adverse drug events: the promise, challenges, and state of the art. Drug Safety. [abstract]
Fishman E, Tamang S, Shea D. March 2008. Medicare out-of-pocket costs: can private savings incentives solve the problem?, The Commonwealth Fund. [report and chartpack]
Kopec, D. and Tamang S. June 2007. Failures in complex systems: case studies, causes, and possible remedies. SIGCSE Bull. 39, 2.[paper link]
Research Talks
Tamang S, April, 2013. Unsupervised modeling of chronic disease dynamics. New York University, Computer Science Department
Tamang S, October, 2010. Adding Smarter Systems instead of Human Annotators: A Combined
Approach to Slot Filling. NLP Seminar, CUNY Graduate Center. [summary]
Fishman E, Tamang S, April 2008. Using the Health Outcomes Survey to inform quality measurement for Medicare Advantage. The Medicare Advantage Quality Measurement & Performance Assessment Training Conference, Baltimore, MD. [slides]
Fishman E, Tamang S, Griffeth K. Nov 2007. Utilization of custodial nursing homes by Elderplan Social HMO members: predicting expected rates using Medicare Health Outcomes Survey data. Presentation at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. [slides and audio]
Fishman E, Tamang S. March 2006. Utilization of custodial nursing homes by Elderplan Social HMO Members: evidence of reductions. Presentation at the National Council on Aging / American Society on Aging Joint Conference, Anahiem, CA.