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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 will 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/

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, 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, 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.