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==================== EUROLAN-2017 ====================
===== SUMMER SCHOOL ON BIOMEDICAL TEXT PROCESSING ====
The 13th in the series of EUROLAN Schools
10 – 17 September 2017, ConstanÈ›a, Romania
http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2017/
Overview
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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.The growth of
BioNLP over the past fifteen years is due in large part to the
availability of web-based publication databases such as PubMed and Web
of Science coupled with increasing access to anonymized electronic
medical/health records. 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. Beyond merely identifying texts relevant to a
particular interest, BioNLP applies sophisticated NLP information
extraction (IE) technologies (e.g., event extraction or entity-relation
extraction) to identify and analyze text segments to produce information
about, or even models, of phenomena such as drug or protein
interactions, gene relations, temporal relations in clinical records,
biological processes, etc. Overall, the application of automatic NLP
techniques to unstructured text in scientific literature and medical
records enables life scientists to both find and exploit this data
without the significant effort of manual searching and researching.
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. Each tutorial is accompanied by one or two hands-on
sessions, in which participants will use text mining tools to explore
and exploit several varieties of biomedical language resources,
including cloud-based repositories of scientific publications, annotated
biomedical corpora, databases and ontologies of biomedical terms,
etc. The topics covered in the tutorials and hands-on sessions include :
- mining biomedical literature
- entity identification and normalization
- conceptual graphs extracted from medical texts
- annotation of semantic content, with applications in medicine and
biology
- medical search engines
- deep learning for bioinformatics
- biomedical question/answering
- clinical data repositories
- big data and cloud computing in relation with biomedical textual data
- clinical relationships
- medical topic modeling
- medical language systems
- clinical text analysis
- text summarization in the biomedical domain
- event-based text mining for biology and related fields
- event extraction in medical texts
Invited Lecturers
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- Mihaela Breabăn – “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of IaÈ™i (Romania)
- Kevin Cohen – U. Colorado School of Medicine (USA) and LIMSI, CNRS,
Université Paris-Saclay
- Noa Patricia Cruz Diaz – Virgen del Rocio University Hospital (Spain)
- Eric Gaussier – University Grenoble Alps (France)
- Nancy Ide – Vassar College (USA)
- Pierre Zweigenbaum – LIMSI, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay
(France)
Venue
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EUROLAN-2017 is hosted by the “Ovidius” University of ConstanÈ›a, Faculty
of Mathematics and Computer Science and Faculty of Medicine in
Constanța, Romania.
The city of Constanța is the largest port on the Black Sea, in the
Romanian province of Dobruja (known during the Roman Empire as Scythia
Minor). The city itself was historically known as the Roman metropolis
Tomis. Founded in 600 BC, Constanța is the oldest continuously inhabited
city in Romania.
In AD 8, the Latin poet Publius Ovidius Naso (known as Ovid in the
English-speaking world) was banished to Tomis by the emperor Augustus
and spent the remainder of his life there. This year, the city is
celebrating the 2000th anniversary of the poet’s death. A statue of Ovid
stands in the Ovid Square (Piața Ovidiu) of Constanța in front of the
Old Town History Museum. One of the most famous attractions in Constanța
is the Edificiul Roman cu Mozaic, comprising more than 850 sqquaare
meters of colorful Roman mosaics from the end of the 4th century AD.
Program
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Three or four tutorial and hands-on sessions will be scheduled each day,
lasting 1.5 hours each. The balance of tutorials and hands-on session
varies from topic to topic. The final schedule will be available on the
School’s website soon.
The School will commence on Sunday evening, September 10, with the
registration of participants and an welcome reception. Evenings provide
the occasion to go out in the city, enjoy discussions with, and make
friends. A half-day excursion will be organized in the surroundings,
possibly cruising to the island in the middle of the lake in front of
Mamaia, an exquisite summer resort near Constanța.
Satellite event
===============
MEDA-2017 – an workshop on Curative Power of MEdical DAta will take
place during the EUROLAN Summer School. The intention of the workshop is
to allow participants to present work related to biomedical data in
front of practitioners, researchers, and scholars, to share with their
colleagues in the School examples, interesting use cases, processing
models, and to discuss ways of analysis of biomedical data. The
participation with a paper in the satellite event encumbers a reduction
of the registration fee for EUROLAN-2017. A MEDA-2017 call for
participation is issued simultaneously with this call.
Accommodation
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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 Constanța or Mamaia.
Registration and fee
====================
Before 4 August : 400 EUR
5 August and later : 450 EUR
These are fees applicable only to students ; for other types of
participants, please see
http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2017/information.html.
Important Dates
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- First call and pre-registration open : May 3, 2017
- Registration open : May 26, 2017
- Last day for early registration : August 4, 2017
- Last day for late registration : August 31, 2017
- EUROLAN School : September 10-17, 2017
Program Committee
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Dan Cristea – "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of IaÈ™i and Romanian
Academy (Romania)
Nancy Ide – Vassar College (USA)
Dan TufiÈ™ – Romanian Academy (Romania)
Local Organizing Committee
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Dorin-Mircea Popovici (Local Chair) – “Ovidius” University, ConstanÈ›a
Liliana Tuță (Local Vice-Chair) – “Ovidius” University, ConstanÈ›a
Elena Băutu – “Ovidius” University, ConstanÈ›a
Alexandru Bobe – “Ovidius” University, ConstanÈ›a
Eric Curea – Romanian Academy, Bucharest
Adrian Iftene – "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of IaÈ™i
Ioana IonaÈ™cu – Romanian Academy, Bucharest
Corina Forăscu – "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of IaÈ™i
Lucian GÂdioi – "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of IaÈ™i
Daniela Gîfu – "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of IaÈ™i and Romanian Academy, IaÈ™i
Maria Mitrofan – Romanian Academy, Bucharest
CrenguÈ›a-Mădălina Puchianu – “Ovidius” University, ConstanÈ›a
Andrei Scutelnicu – "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of IaÈ™i and Romanian Academy, IaÈ™i
Diana Trandabăț – "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of IaÈ™i
Contact
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Dan Cristea : dcristea@info.uaic.ro
Nancy Ide : ide@cs.vassar.edu
Dan TufiÈ™ : tufis@racai.ro
Organizers
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- Romanian Academy, with the Institute of Computer Science in Iași
and the Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Bucharest
- “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in IaÈ™i, with the Faculty of
Computer Science
- “Ovidius” University in ConstanÈ›a, with the Faculty of Mathematics
and Computer Science and the Faculty of Medicine
- Vassar College
- Academy of Technical Sciences of Romania