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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">[apologies for cross-posting]</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">****************************************</span></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> Healthcare Text Analytics Conference<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>HealTAC<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>2021<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> June 16-18, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><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%7C4c89eddedc624f1d8b0a08d8f3ef6cf7%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0%7C0%7C637527556995585973%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=V%2B%2B3xT3Gj8pzsJt5xKFW%2B72TRcjNUX8pruKyDzxx%2BcY%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">http://healtex.org/healtac-2021/</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">This is the final call for contributions to HealTAC 2021: we are inviting submissions for</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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PhD forum (up to 4 pages),<span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">
posters (1 page),<span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">
system/software demos (2 pages).<span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The new<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>extended<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>deadline is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>April 16th</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(details
are available<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealtex.org%2Fhealtac-2021%2Fcall-for-contributions%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cnick.cummins%40kcl.ac.uk%7C4c89eddedc624f1d8b0a08d8f3ef6cf7%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0%7C0%7C637527556995585973%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=ItxXGk7R1v07wc8F%2B0Kr2fMXt6qPkYYvcidDoLbk3Qk%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">here</a>).</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">HealTAC 2021<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>will be organised<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>online</b>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>As in previous years,
it will bring the academic, clinical, industrial and patient communities together to discuss the current state of the art in processing healthcare free text and share experience, results and challenges.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>We are pleased
to confirm the keynotes:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6">
<b>Dr Aurélie Névéol</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LIMSI): “Responsible bioNLP in the making: contributions from ethics, reproducibility and the state of NLP”<span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6">
<b>Prof Maria Liakata</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Queen Mary University, the Alan Turing Institute): “Opportunities, challenges and progress in longitudinal natural language processing for mental health”.<span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">There will be pre-conference<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>training events<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>organised on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>June
16th</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>- more information to follow soon.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Following the conference, there will be an open call for papers for in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.frontiersin.org%2Fresearch-topics%2F13174%2Fhealthcare-text-analytics-unlocking-the-evidence-from-free-text&data=04%7C01%7Cnick.cummins%40kcl.ac.uk%7C4c89eddedc624f1d8b0a08d8f3ef6cf7%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0%7C0%7C637527556995595933%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=Zo1uwfmqiqPc%2F5GDQJ%2B4iiWSGmCa3ptbG5VO6xJj8RU%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" title="Original URL:
https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/13174/healthcare-text-analytics-unlocking-the-evidence-from-free-text
Click to follow link."><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Frontiers
in Digital Health</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We are looking forward to welcoming you in June 2021!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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