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Update: 2011 International Medical NLP Challenge

A new challenge is scheduled for 2011. Get details on the Medical NLP Challenge web site.

Open Position: Visiting Research Scientist/Post-doctoral Fellow

Research efforts will focus on the development, application and evaluation of novel linguisitc methods in both the clinical and administrative settings. For more information, download the position description.

Cincinnati Pediatric Corpus Available

John Pestian, PhD, and colleagues have used natural language processing to create the Cincinnati Pediatric Corpus (CPC), a collection of 600,000 words of HIPAA-anonymized clinical data approved for release by the Institutional Review Board of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. [more]

Cincinnati Rheumatic Disease Center Grant Renewed

The National Institutes of Health has renewed funding for the Cincinnati Rheumatic Diseases Center, an initiative that encourages interaction between rheumatology specialists and experts in bioinformatics and immunology. Computational Medicine Center investigators will provide bioinformatic support. [more]