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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">AAAI 2012 Fall Symposium on</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Information Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery in Biomedical Text<br>Part of AAAI Symposia Series</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/2012biomedicaltextsymposium/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://sites.google.com/site/2012biomedicaltextsymposium/</a></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">November 2-4, 2012 Arlington, VA, USA</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The amount of biological and medical literature has grown exponentially within the last decade. This data may be in the form of journal citations in PubMed, in the form of clinical summaries in healthcare institutions or in the form of blogs and user comments that express personal opinions on the different healthcare topics such as drug adverse effects or disease treatments. This material, be it expressed by researchers, medical professionals or medical care receivers, is of significant importance in terms of the wealth of information that it possesses. However it is only valuable if efficient and reliable ways of accessing and analyzing that information are available.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">This symposium will address current research on computational techniques for information retrieval and knowledge discovery from biomedical and clinical texts, with a focus on machine learning and/or natural language processing, as well as novel applications of existing techniques to the open problems in text processing in biomedical domain.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The symposium will feature:</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Invited talks<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Challenge sessions featuring talks on key challenges in the community<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Research presentations and posters<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">INVITED SPEAKERS<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:27.75pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">David Lipman, <i>Director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information</i>, Mining the biomedical literature might be even harder than we thought...<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:27.75pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">William Cohen, <i>Carnegie Mellon University</i>, Reasoning with Data Extracted from the Scientific Literature<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><p style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-left:27.75pt;background-color:white"><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Suchi Saria, <i>Johns Hopkins University</i>,</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Probabilistic Approaches for Discovery and Prediction from Clinical Temporal Data</span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:27.75pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Ellen Voorhees, <i>National Institute of Standards and Technology</i>, The TREC Medical Records Track</span><i><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Registration details can be found at: <a href="http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fss12.php" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fss12.php</a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">If you have any questions, do not hesitate to direct your questions to</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="mailto:Rezarta.Islamaj@nih.gov" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Rezarta.Islamaj@nih.gov</a></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">or</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="mailto:Lana.Yeganova@nih.gov" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Lana.Yeganova@nih.gov</a></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">AAAI 2012 Fall Symposium Organizers:</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Lana Yeganova, National Library of Medicine, NIH</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Rezarta Islamaj Dogan, National Library of Medicine, NIH</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Vahan Grigoryan, Booz Allen Hamilton</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Mark Dredze, Johns Hopkins University</span></p>
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