Connectionists: UK Healthcare text analytics conference (HealTAC) 2021 - 2nd call for participation + pre-conference tutorials

[Nicholas Cummins]

*[Apologies for cross-posting]*



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* Healthcare Text Analytics Conference                  HealTAC 2021
       June 16-18, 2021   http://healtex.org/healtac-2021/
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The HealTAC 2021 organising committee is delighted to invite participation
in this year's conference and pre-conference tutorials. 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
and share experience, results and challenges. The programme
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include keynote talks, research papers, discussion panels, an industry
forum, software demos, a PhD forum and poster sessions. Given the ongoing
situation with the COVID-19 pandemic, HealTAC 2021 will be an online event.

Registration for the main conference and pre-conference tutorials is now
open! Register here: http://healtex.org/healtac-2021/registration/
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*Registration fees:*

   - Non-students: £10
   - Students: Free

*Dates:*

   - Tutorials: 16 June
   - Main conference:17 & 18 June

*Tutorials: *



*MedCAT/CogStack (12:30-14:30)* This session will introduce the
MedCAT/CogStack framework
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which is a stack of software that facilitates user-friendly concept
annotation and information extraction from clinical text. The tutorial will
start by describing different components of the software, and finish with
an application of a text mining model to data.



*Exploring Text-derived Patient Phenotype Profiles (15:00-17:00)* This
tutorial will introduce Komenti
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and discuss the construction and use of text-derived patient phenotype
profiles. This will consist in learning definitions, building phenotype
profiles from clinical text, and using semantic methods to employ these
profiles for ranking/classification outcomes, e.g. differential diagnosis.



*Keynotes:*

   - *Dr Aurélie Névéol* (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LIMSI), who will
   discuss “Responsible bioNLP in the making: contributions from ethics,
   reproducibility and the state of NLP”
   - *Prof Maria Liakata* (Queen Mary University, the Alan Turing
   Institute), who will talk about the "Opportunities, challenges and progress
   in longitudinal natural language processing for mental health"



HealTAC 2021 is happy to be sponsored by Frontiers
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