<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:10pt"><b>[</b></span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt">Apologies</span></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:10pt"><b> for cross-posting]</b></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium"></span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12pt"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-size:12pt"><b>***********************************************<br></b></div><div style="font-size:12pt"><div><b> Healthcare Text Analytics Conference<br>                  HealTAC 2021<br>               June 16-18, 2021<br>   <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%7C02eef802fc974d49dd9b08d92bd44f4f%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0%7C0%7C637589013134658304%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=W2zxNKaVbQaFgYaZXQE%2FsOi1QXzq1uDlE49T9dKm5Nk%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://healtex.org/healtac-2021/</a> <br></b></div><div><b>***********************************************</b></div></div><br><font face="Arial"><span style="line-height:16.100000381469727px">This is the final call for participation to HealTAC 2021. The conference will be organised <b>online</b> - we already have over 100 registered participants!</span></font><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial"><span style="line-height:16.100000381469727px"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial"><span style="line-height:16.100000381469727px"><b>Registration:</b></span></font></p><ul><li><font face="Arial"><span style="line-height:16.100000381469727px">Free for students,</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="line-height:16.100000381469727px"><font face="Arial"> £10 for all others<br></font></span></font></li><li><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealtex.org%2Fhealtac-2021%2Fregistration%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cnick.cummins%40kcl.ac.uk%7C02eef802fc974d49dd9b08d92bd44f4f%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0%7C0%7C637589013134658304%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=4jFAyX0nocs7kRQLG9SIHZKWbWo%2FDonYY%2BYQbZx2Mm0%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Arial">http://healtex.org/healtac-2021/registration/</font></a></li></ul><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial"><span style="line-height:16.100000381469727px"><b>Keynotes:</b><br></span><span style="line-height:16.100000381469727px"></span></font></p><font face="Arial"></font><ul><li><font face="Arial"><span style="line-height:16.100000381469727px"><b>Dr Aurélie Névéol</b>: “Responsible bioNLP in the making: contributions from ethics, reproducibility and the state of NLP”<br></span></font></li><li><font face="Arial"><b><span style="line-height:16.100000381469727px"></span></b><span style="line-height:16.100000381469727px"><b>Prof Maria Liakata</b>: “Opportunities, challenges and progress in longitudinal natural language processing for mental health”.</span></font></li></ul><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial"><b>Panels and fora</b>:</font></p><ul><li><font face="Arial">PhD forum<br><span style="line-height:16.100000381469727px"></span></font></li><li><font face="Arial"><span style="line-height:16.100000381469727px">Breaking the deadlock: working towards better access to clinical free text data for research</span></font></li><li><font face="Arial"><span style="line-height:16.100000381469727px">Healthcare Speech Analytics: challenges and opportunities</span></font></li><li><font face="Arial"><span style="line-height:16.100000381469727px">The 5th Healtex Industry Forum</span></font></li><li><font face="Arial"><span style="line-height:16.100000381469727px">Open community forum<br></span></font></li></ul><font face="Arial"></font><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial"><span style="line-height:16.100000381469727px"><b>Research presentations, posters and demos:</b><br></span><span style="line-height:16.100000381469727px"></span></font></p><font face="Arial"></font><ul><li><font face="Arial"><span style="line-height:16.100000381469727px">10 oral presentations</span></font></li><li><font face="Arial"><span style="line-height:16.100000381469727px">over 20 posters and demos<br></span></font></li></ul><font face="Arial"></font><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Arial"><span style="line-height:16.100000381469727px"><b>Tutorials (June 16th):</b><br></span><span style="line-height:16.100000381469727px"></span></font></p><font face="Arial"></font><ul><li><font face="Arial">MedCAT/Cogstack</font></li><li><font face="Arial">Komenti<span style="line-height:16.100000381469727px"></span></font></li></ul><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