Apologies for cross-postings Call for papers for the ICML Workshop on Learning From Clinical Free Text http://sites.google.com/site/learnclinicalfreetext
**NEW** Due to numerous requests we extend the submission deadline to May 6th. The workshop seeks high quality, original and unpublished work on algorithms, theory and systems for learning from unstructured clinical data. The workshop is part of the 28th International Conference on Machine Learning (http://www.icml-2011.org). We encourage submissions on any of (but not limited to) the following topics: - Applications: * Information Extraction and Retrieval from Clinical Text * Question Answering from Clinical Text * Clinical Ontologies * Patient Identification with Unstructured Clinical Text * Patient risk assessment from Unstructured Clinical Text * Combining Phenotype and Genotype Data - Algorithms/Theory * Learning from noisy clinical text data * Learning from multiple annotators * Learning with data not missing at random * Active Learning to reduce expert annotation costs * Combining Clinical Unstructured and Structured Text for inference Submissions and Publication We call for paper contribution of up to 8 pages to the workshop using ICML style. The accepted papers will be available for downloading from the workshop website's Proceedings page. Accepted papers will be either presented as a talk or poster. Papers should be emailed to the organizers at [email protected]. Please indicate your preference for oral or poster presentation. Accepted papers will be either presented as a talk or poster. They will also be available in an online proceedings that will be made available prior to the workshop. Extended versions of some accepted papers will also be invited for inclusion in an edited book on the same topic as the workshop. Important Dates May 6 - Deadline of submission **NEW** May 20 - Notification of Acceptance June 15 - Camera Ready Submission July 2 - Workshop Proper Organizing Committee Faisal Farooq, Siemens Healthcare (Primary contact) Shipeng Yu, Siemens Healthcare Noemie Elhadad, Columbia Univ. Balaji Krishnapuram, Siemens Healthcare Zeeshan Syed, Univ. of Michigan Ozlem Uzuner, Univ. of Albany
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