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EUROLAN-2017 \u2013 Summer School on Biomedical Text Processing
\n10 \u2013 17 September 2017<\/span><\/span>, Constan\u021ba, Romania
\nhttp:\/\/eurolan.info.uaic.ro\/2017\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The 13th in the series of EUROLAN Schools<\/p>\n

Biomedical Text Mining (BioNLP) applies natural language processing (NLP) techniques to identify and extract information from scientific publications in biology, medicine, and chemistry, in order to discover novel knowledge that can contribute to biomedical research.\u00a0 The large size of the biomedical literature and its rapid growth in recent years make literature search and information access a demanding task. Health-care professionals in the clinical domain face a similar problem of information explosion when dealing with the ever-increasing body of available medical\/health records in electronic form. Overall, the application of automatic NLP techniques to unstructured text in scientific literature and medical records enables life scientists to find and exploit this data.<\/p>\n

EUROLAN-2017 has engaged several well-known researchers in the fields of BioNLP and NLP to provide a comprehensive overview of language processing models and techniques applicable to the biomedical domain, ranging from an introduction to fundamental NLP technologies to the study of use cases and exploitation of available tools and frameworks that support BioNLP. Tutorial are accompanied by hands-on sessions.<\/p>\n

Invited Lecturers and Topics (T=tutorial; H = Hands-on session)<\/p>\n

Lecturer: Mihaela Breab\u0103n \u2013 \u201cAlexandru Ioan Cuza\u201d University of Ia\u0219i (Romania)
\nT: Open-Source Frameworks for Big Data Processing
\nH: Textual data processing on Hadoop<\/p>\n

Lecturer: Kevin Cohen \u2013 University of Colorado School of Medicine (USA) and LIMSI, CNRS, Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay, Orsay (France)
\nT: Language and linguistics in NLP\/NLP for biomedical language
\nH: Empirical investigations of the implications of the nature of biomedical language for the design of experiments in natural language processing<\/p>\n

Lecturer: Noa Patricia Cruz Diaz \u2013 Virgen del Rocio University Hospital (Spain)
\nT: Negation and Speculation Detection in Biomedical Texts
\nH: Rule-based versus machine-learning tools for automatic identification of negation<\/p>\n

Lecturer: Eric Gaussier \u2013 University Grenoble Alps (France)
\nT: Information extraction. Techniques for Mining Biomedical Texts
\nH: Analysis and discussion on (some) information extraction tools for biomedical texts (together with Pierre Zweigenbaum)<\/p>\n

Lecturer: Nancy Ide \u2013 Vassar College (USA)
\nT: Mining Scientific Literature with the LAPPS Grid
\nH: Data discovery and mining using major scientific publication databases<\/p>\n

Lecturer: Pierre Zweigenbaum \u2013 LIMSI, CNRS, Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay, Orsay (France)
\nT: Detecting Medical Concepts in Clinical Texts (named entity extraction and use of specialized vocabularies, terminologies, ontologies)<\/p>\n

Venue<\/p>\n

EUROLAN-2017 is hosted by the \u201cOvidius\u201d University of Constan\u021ba, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and Faculty of Medicine in Constan\u021ba, Romania.<\/p>\n

Satellite event<\/p>\n

MEDA-2017 \u2013 workshop on Curative Power of MEdical DAta will take place on September 14<\/span><\/span>; see details at http:\/\/eurolan.info.uaic.ro\/2017\/details.html#Satellite<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Accommodation<\/p>\n

Low-cost accommodation for EUROLAN students is available in the University\u2019s hostel (shared double rooms). Alternatively, participants may opt for a number of hotels in the city of Constan\u021ba or Mamaia.<\/p>\n

Registration and fee<\/p>\n

Before 4 August<\/span><\/span>:\u00a0 400 EUR
\n5 August<\/span><\/span> and later:\u00a0 450 EUR<\/p>\n

Fees applicable only to students; for other types of participants, see http:\/\/eurolan.info.uaic.ro\/2017\/information.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Important Dates<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Registration open: May 31, 2017<\/span><\/span>
\n\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Last day for early registration: August 4, 2017<\/span><\/span>
\n\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Last day for late registration: August 31, 2017<\/span><\/span>
\n\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0EUROLAN School: September 10-17, 2017<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Program Committee and Contacts<\/p>\n

Dan Cristea <dcristea@info.uaic.ro<\/a>>
\nNancy Ide <ide@cs.vassar.edu<\/a>>
\nDan Tufi\u0219 <tufis@racai.ro<\/a>><\/p>\n

Organizers<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Romanian Academy
\n\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cAlexandru Ioan Cuza\u201d University in Ia\u0219i
\n\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cOvidius\u201d University in Constan\u021ba
\n\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Vassar College
\n\u2022\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Technical Sciences Academy of Romania<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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