[Corpora-List] International Challenge: classifying clinical free text using natural language processing

[Kevin B. Cohen]

Dear CORPORA list subscribers,

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.

Challenge details and on-line registration is found at
http://www.computationalmedicine.org/challenge/index.php.

Please note that the data set associated with this competition is rather
unique, and presents novel opportunities for corpus linguistics.

Important Dates are:

23 Jan 2007 Registration begins

1 Feb 2007 Training data sets released

28 Feb 2007 Registration ends

1 Mar 2007 Challenge data set released

18 Mar 2007 Last day to submit results

1 Apr 2007 Challenge results announced

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
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.

The Challenge is partly funded by an Ohio Third Frontier, Wright Center of
Innovation grant. Travel award is generously donated by Cincom Systems.

Questions should be e-mailed to information at computationalmedicine.org

-- 
K. B. Cohen
Biomedical Text Mining Group Lead
Center for Computational Pharmacology
303-916-2417 (cell) 303-377-9194 (home)
http://compbio.uchsc.edu/Hunter_lab/Cohen
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