W4: Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP)

Dina Demner-Fushman, Kevin Cohen, Sophia Ananiadou, Jun'ichi Tsujii

Live Session: Jul 9 (15:30-01:00 GMT)

Time (PDT)	Event	Speakers
Jul 9, 8:30-8:40	Opening remarks	Dina Demner-Fushman, Kevin Cohen, Sophia Ananiadou
Jul 9, 8:40-9:10	Biomedical Retrieval: Users, Data, and Tasks	Kirk Roberts
Jul 9, 9:10-9:20	Quantifying 60 Years of Gender Bias in Biomedical Research with Word Embeddings	Anthony Rios
Jul 9, 9:20-9:30	Sequence-to-Set Semantic Tagging for Complex Query Reformulation and Automated Text Categorization in Biomedical IR using Self-Attention	Manirupa Das
Jul 9, 9:30-9:40	Interactive Extractive Search over Biomedical Corpora	Hillel Taub-Tabib
Jul 9, 9:40-9:50	mproving Biomedical Analogical Retrieval with Embedding of Structural Dependencies	Amandalynne Paullada
Jul 9, 9:50-10:00	DeSpin: a prototype system for detecting spin in biomedical publications	Anna Koroleva
Jul 9, 10:00-10:30	Discussion	Kirk Roberts, Anthony Rios, Manirupa Das, Hillel Taub-Tabib, Amandalynne Paullada, Anna Koroleva, Dina Demner-Fushman, Kevin Cohen, Sophia Ananiadou
Jul 9, 10:45-11:15	Challenges in Domain Adaptation for Medical NLP	Tim Miller
Jul 9, 11:15-11:25	Towards Visual Dialog for Radiology	Olga Kovaleva
Jul 9, 11:25-11:35	A BERT-based One-Pass Multi-Task Model for Clinical Temporal Relation Extraction	Chen Lin
Jul 9, 11:35-11:45	Experimental Evaluation and Development of a Silver-Standard for the MIMIC-III Clinical Coding Dataset	Tom Searle
Jul 9, 11:45-11:55	Comparative Analysis of Text Classification Approaches in Electronic Health Records	Aurelie Mascio
Jul 9, 11:55-12:05	Noise Pollution in Hospital Readmission Prediction: Long Document Classification with Reinforcement Learning	Liyan Xu,
Jul 9, 12:05-12:15	Evaluating the Utility of Model Configurations and Data Augmentation on Clinical Semantic Textual Similarity	Yuxia Wang
Jul 9, 12:15-12:45	Discussion	Tim Miller, Olga Kovaleva, Chen Lin, Tom Searle, Aurelie Mascio, Liyan Xu, Yuxia Wang, Dina Demner-Fushman, Kevin Cohen, Sophia Ananiadou
Jul 9, 13:30-14:00	Language Understanding	Anna Rumshisky
Jul 9, 14:00-14:10	Entity-Enriched Neural Models for Clinical Question Answering	Bhanu Pratap Singh Rawat
Jul 9, 14:10-14:20	Evidence Inference 2.0: More Data, Better Models	Jay DeYoung
Jul 9, 14:20-14:30	Personalized Early Stage Alzheimer’s Disease Detection: A Case Study of President Reagan’s Speeches	Ning Wang
Jul 9, 14:30-14:40	BioMRC: A Dataset for Biomedical Machine Reading Comprehension	Dimitris Pappas
Jul 9, 14:40-14:50	Neural Transduction of Letter Position Dyslexia using an Anagram Matrix Representation	Avi Bleiweiss
Jul 9, 14:50-15:00	Domain Adaptation and Instance Selection for Disease Syndrome Classification over Veterinary Clinical Notes	Brian Hur
Jul 9, 15:00-15:30	Discussion	Anna Rumshisky, Jay DeYong, Ning Wang, Dimitris, Pappas, Avi Bleiweiss, Brian Hur, Dina Demner-Fushman, Kevin Cohen, Sophia Ananiadou
Jul 9, 15:45-16:25	Machine Reading for Precision Medicine	Hoifung Poon
Jul 9, 16:25-16:35	Benchmark and Best Practices for Biomedical Knowledge Graph Embeddings	David Chang
Jul 9, 16:35-16:45	Extensive Error Analysis and a Learning-Based Evaluation of Medical Entity Recognition Systems to Approximate User Experience	Isar Nejadgholi
Jul 9, 16:45-16:55	A Data-driven Approach for Noise Reduction in Distantly Supervised Biomedical Relation Extraction	Saadullah Amin, Katherine Ann Dunfield, Günter Neumann
Jul 9, 16:55-17:05	Global Locality in Biomedical Relation and Event Extraction	Elaheh ShafieiBavani
Jul 9, 17:05-17:15	An Empirical Study of Multi-Task Learning on BERT for Biomedical Text Mining	Yifan Peng
Jul 9, 17:15-17:45	Discussion	Hoifung Poon, David Chang, Isar Nejadgholi, Saadullah Amin, Katherine Ann Dunfield, Günter Neumann, Elaheh ShafieiBavani, Yifan Peng, Dina Demner-Fushman, Kevin Cohen, Sophia Ananiadou
Jul 9, 17:45-18:00	Closing remarks	Dina Demner-Fushman, Kevin Cohen, Sophia Ananiadou