<div>Dear CORPORA list subscribers,</div>
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<div>You are invited to participate in an international Challenge to create and train computationally intelligent algorithms on clinical free-text. The goal is to assign all relevant codes (called ICD-9-CM codes) to short pieces of texts. The Challenge provides an international opportunity for research groups to share the applicability of their natural language processing and computationally intelligent algorithms on actual medical data.
<br><br>Challenge details and on-line registration is found at <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.computationalmedicine.org/challenge/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.computationalmedicine.org/challenge/index.php
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<div>Please note that the data set associated with this competition is rather unique, and presents novel opportunities for corpus linguistics.<br><br>Important Dates are:<br><br>23 Jan 2007 Registration begins<br><br>1 Feb 2007 Training data sets released
<br><br>28 Feb 2007 Registration ends<br><br>1 Mar 2007 Challenge data set released<br><br>18 Mar 2007 Last day to submit results<br><br>1 Apr 2007 Challenge results announced <br><br>Challenge organizers include Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Division of Biomedical Informatics, the University of Cincinnati, Department of Radiology, Ohio State University's Department of Linguistics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, and the Center for Computational Pharmacology at the
<br>University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. <br><br>The Challenge is partly funded by an Ohio Third Frontier, Wright Center of Innovation grant. Travel award is generously donated by Cincom Systems.<br><br>Questions should be e-mailed to
<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:information@computationalmedicine.org" target="_blank">information@computationalmedicine.org</a><br><br>-- <br>K. B. Cohen<br>Biomedical Text Mining Group Lead
<br>Center for Computational Pharmacology<br>303-916-2417 (cell) 303-377-9194 (home)<br><a href="http://compbio.uchsc.edu/Hunter_lab/Cohen">http://compbio.uchsc.edu/Hunter_lab/Cohen</a><br><br> </div>