28.3470, Summer Schools: Bio-NLP

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Subject: 28.3470, Summer Schools: Bio-NLP

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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 11:55:10
From: Dan Cristea [dcristea at info.uaic.ro]
Subject: Bio-NLP

 

Bio-NLP

Host Institution: Ovidius University, Constanta
Coordinating Institution: Alexandru Ioan Cuza - University of Iasi
Website: http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2017/

Dates: 10-Sep-2017 - 17-Sep-2017
Location: Constanta, Romania

Focus: EUROLAN-2017 focusses on Biomedical Text Mining (BioNLP), i.e. natural language processing (NLP) techniques applied 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.
Minimum Education Level: MA


Description:
EUROLAN-2017 is the 13th Summer School in a series initiated in 1993. 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.

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.   

Venue:

EUROLAN-2017 is hosted by the “Ovidius” University of Constanta, Faculty of
Mathematics and Computer Science and Faculty of Medicine, in Constanta,
Romania. 

Satellite event:

MEDA-2017 – workshop on Curative Power of MEdical DAta will take place on 12
and 13 September; see details at
http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2017/details.html#Satellite. 

Accommodation:

Low-cost accommodation for EUROLAN students is available in the University’s
hostel (shared double rooms). Alternatively, participants may opt for a number
of hotels in the city of Constanta or Mamaia.

Registration and fee:

Before 18 August:  400 EUR (extended)
19 August and later:  450 EUR (adjusted)

These fees are applicable only to students; for other types of participants,
see http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2017/information.html. 

Important Dates:
- Last day for early registration: August 18, 2017 (extended)
- Last day for late registration: September 10, 2017 (extended)
- EUROLAN School: September 10-17, 2017

Program Committee and Contacts:

Dan Cristea <dcristea at info.uaic.ro>
Nancy Ide <ide at cs.vassar.edu>
Dan Tufis <tufis at racai.ro>

Organizers:

- Romanian Academy
- “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Ia?i
- “Ovidius” University of Constan?a
- Vassar College
- Technical Sciences Academy of Romania
- Romanian Association of Computational Linguistics


Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics


Subject Languages: English


Language Families: Germanic

Tuition: 450 EUR

Tuition Explanation: Invited Lecturers and Topics (T=tutorial; H = Hands-on session)

- Mihaela Breaban – “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Ia?i (Romania)
T: Open-Source Frameworks for Big Data Processing
H: Textual data processing on Hadoop

- Kevin Cohen – University of Colorado School of Medicine (USA) and LIMSI,
CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay (France)
T: Language and linguistics in NLP/NLP for biomedical language
H: Empirical investigations of the implications of the nature of biomedical
language for the design of experiments in natural language processing

- Noa Patricia Cruz Diaz – Virgen del Rocio University Hospital (Spain)
T: Negation and Speculation Detection in Biomedical Texts
H: Rule-based versus machine-learning tools for automatic identification of
negation

- Eric Gaussier – University Grenoble Alps (France)
T: Information extraction. Techniques for Mining Biomedical Texts
H: Analysis and discussion on (some) information extraction tools for
biomedical texts (together with Pierre Zweigenbaum)

- Nancy Ide – Vassar College (USA)
T: Mining Scientific Literature with the LAPPS Grid
H: Data discovery and mining using major scientific publication databases

- Pierre Zweigenbaum – LIMSI, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay (France)
T: Detecting Medical Concepts in Clinical Texts (named entity extraction and
use of specialized vocabularies, terminologies, ontologies)

Fees include: tuition, accommodation (a bed in a double room, in the
University’s hostel (nice rooms, with private bathrooms, TV, fridge, coffee
makers), two meals per day (breakfast and lunch), a welcome party, coffee
breaks, School’s and workshop materials and a social event. 

If you decide for an on-site registration, we cannot guarantee that we could
find any more seats available in the conference room and the University’s
hostel.


Registration: 01-Jun-2017 to 10-Sep-2017

Contact Person: Dan Cristea
                Phone: 0040 744 839539
                Email: dcristea at info.uaic.ro

Apply on the web: http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2017/information.html

Registration Instructions:
In the registration form (accessed from this address:
http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2017/information.html) you will be asked to
provide: date of registration, name, gender, background, e-mail address,
affiliation, address and country.




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