<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">****************************************</span></b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"> Healthcare Text Analytics Conference</span></b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">               HealTAC 2021</span></b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">            June 17-18, 2021</span></b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"> <a href="http://healtex.org/healtac-2021/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline">http://healtex.org/healtac-2021/</a></span></b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">****************************************</span></b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">We are delighted to announce HealTAC 2021, the fourth annual Healthcare Text Analytics Conference. Given the ongoing situation with the COVID-19 pandemic, HealTAC 2021 will be an <b>online</b> event, but if the circumstances allow, we aim to organise a <b>blended</b> conference, with some activities also delivered face-to-face in London, UK. As in previous years, HealTAC 2021 will bring the academic, clinical, industrial and patient communities together to discuss the current state of the art in processing healthcare free-text data and share experience, results and challenges.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Keynotes:</span></b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"><span></span></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Dr Aurélie Névéol</span></b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"> (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LIMSI), who will discuss “Responsible bioNLP in the making: contributions from ethics, reproducibility and the state of NLP”<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Prof Maria Liakata</span></b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"> (Queen Mary University, the Alan Turing Institute), who will talk about longitudinal models of NLP and their application to mental health.<span></span></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Submissions:</span></b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"> We invite full and short papers, posters, PhD student/early postdoc papers, demos, tutorials and panel proposals that address any methodological or implementational aspect involved in processing and using healthcare free text data. Submissions are welcome from all disciplines interested in this area (NLP, speech processing, clinical and social care, legal, auditing etc.). For selected conference papers, there will be the option to submit a journal length paper for further peer review and publication in <b>Frontiers in Digital Health</b>.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Key dates:</span></b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"><span></span></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">March 15th 2021:</span></b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"> deadline for long and short papers, tutorial and panel proposals<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">April 12th 2021:</span></b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"> deadline for posters, PhD forum and demo proposals<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">April 23rd, 2021:</span></b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"> notification of acceptance<span></span></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Topics:</span></b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"><span></span></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Natural language processing of healthcare text<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Information extraction: identification of clinical variables and their values in free-text<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Speech analytics for healthcare applications<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Medical ontologies and coding of healthcare text<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Machine-learning approaches to healthcare text analytics<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Transfer learning for healthcare text analytics<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Processing patient-generated data (e.g. social media, health forums, diaries)<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Processing clinical literature and trial reports<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Integration of structured and unstructured resources for health applications<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Text analytics and learning health systems<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Explainable models for healthcare NLP<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Real-time processing of healthcare free text<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Real-world application of text analytics<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Scalable and secure healthcare NLP infrastructures<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Implementation of healthcare text analytics in practice: public engagement and trust<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Sharing resources for healthcare text analytics (data and methods)<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Reproducibility in the healthcare text analytics<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Evaluation and assessment of text analytics methods<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Text mining for veterinary medicine<span></span></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Pre-conference event(s): </span></b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">There will be pre-conference events organised on June 16th - more information to follow soon.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Details:</span></b><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"> <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealtex.org%2Fhealtac-2021%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cnick.cummins%40kcl.ac.uk%7C63c786540d914d923d5c08d8dc5d721d%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0%7C0%7C637501641203704775%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=1vMeKOmnnn3c3ECSUgLuF3a24jTfxjdwwzFo42EoKqI%3D&reserved=0" title="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealtex.org%2Fhealtac-2021%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cnick.cummins%40kcl.ac.uk%7C63c786540d914d923d5c08d8dc5d721d%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0%7C0%7C637501641203704775%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline">http://healtex.org/healtac-2021/</a><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif">Follow the conference announcements on Twitter at <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fhashtag%2FHealTAC2021&data=04%7C01%7Cnick.cummins%40kcl.ac.uk%7C63c786540d914d923d5c08d8dc5d721d%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0%7C0%7C637501641203704775%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=2%2BR37dAcvsC%2B4ik5DL9JS81TjWK%2FZFLg%2FrTnldYg7Oo%3D&reserved=0" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline"><b>#HEALTAC2021</b></a><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span></p></div></div>