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Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS)

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Wednesday – February 27, 2013
11:00 am - 6:30 pm	Registration
1:00 pm - 2:45 pm	SADI (Tutorial) Mark Wilkinson Presentation slides (web site) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Artjom Klein: - Introduction (pdf) - Writing Service Demo - Part 1 (pdf) - Writing Service Demo - Part 2 (pdf) - Semantic Benchmarking Infrastructure for Text Mining (pdf)
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm	Break
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	SADI (Tutorial) (continues)
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Semantics 101 (Tutorial)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Poster (Author) Set-up
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm	Poster Reception
Thursday – February 28, 2013
7:30 am - 10:00 am	Registration
8:15 am - 8:45 am	Breakfast (continental)
9:00 am - 9:15 am	Welcome & Conference Overview: - Fran Lewitter, ISCB Board Member - Diane Kovats, ISCB Executive Director - Conference Chairs, Jonas Almeida & Ted Slater
9:15 am - 10:00 am	Keynote 1 The Amplification of Informatics Challenges in the Era of Genomic Medicine Presentation (pdf) EDWARD H. SHORTLIFFE, MD, PhD, MACP, FACMI Clinical Professor and Senior Advisor to the Executive Vice Provost Health Solutions, Arizona State University Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics Columbia University Scholar in Residence, New York Academy of Medicine New York, United States
10:05 am - 10:55 am	Clinical Healthcare	Building the App Store for Health and Discovery Presenter: Kenneth Mandl Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital Boston, United States Presentation (pdf)
		Semantically Enabling Genetic Medicine to Facilitate Patients and Guidelines Matching and Enhanced Clinical Decision Support Presenter: Matthias Samwald Medical University of Vienna Vienna, Austria
10:55 am - 11:20 am	Break
11:20 am - 11:40 am	Tech Talk 1	Linguamatics, Linking Data with Agile Text Mining Presenter: David Milward Chief Technology Officer Linguamatics
11:45 am -12:05 pm	Tech Talk 2	Semantic Indexing of Unstructured Documents Using Taxonomies and Ontologies Presenter: Jans Aasman Franz Inc. Oakland, CA, US
12:05 pm - 1:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm - 2:00 pm	Keynote 2 From Biomedical Information Integration to Knowledge Discovery Through the Semantic Web Presentation (pdf) Olivier Bodenreider, M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Cognitive Science Branch National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD, United States
2:05 pm - 3:20 pm	Clinical Healthcare	Enabling Australia Wide Use of SNOMED CT Presenter: David Hansen CSIRO ICT Centre Brisbane, Australia Presentation (pdf)
		The Disease and Clinical Measurements Knowledgebase: A Case Study of Data-driven Ontology Class Evaluation and Enrichment Presenter: Nophar Geifman Ben Gurion University, Dept. of Microbiology Immunology and Genetics Faculty of Health Sciences The National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev Be'er Sheva, Israel Presentation (pdf)
		Building a Knowledge Base for Cancer Genomics Presenters: Eric Neumann, Alex Parker, Rachel Erlich Foundation Medicine
3:20 pm - 3:45 pm	Break
3:45 pm - 4:35 pm	Clinical Healthcare	A Clinical Information Management Platform Using Semantic Technologies Presenter: Christian Seebode ORTEC Medical Berlin, Germany Presentation (pdf)
		CDISC2RDF - Make Clinical Data Standards Linkable, Computable and Queryable Presenters: Charles Mead Octo Consulting Group Washington, United States Eric Prud'hommeaux W3C Cambridge, United States Presentation (pdf)
4:35 pm - 4:45 pm	Daily Closing Remarks	Jonas Almeida & Ted Slater, Conference Chairs
Friday – March 01, 2013
7:30 am - 10:00 am	Registration
8:00 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast (continental)
8:30 am - 8:45 am	Review - Previous Day Jonas Almeida & Ted Slater, Conference Chairs
8:45 am - 9:30 am	Keynote 3 Unlocking the Patient Record for Translational Medicine Presentation (pdf) LYNETTE HIRSCHMAN, PhD The MITRE Corporation Bedford, MA
9:35 am - 10:50 am	Text Mining & Annotation	Domeo Web Annotation Tool: Linking Science and Semantics Through Annotation Paolo Ciccarese Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Boston, United States
		Semantic Benchmarking Infrastructure for Text Mining: Leverage of Corpora, Ontologies and SPARQL to Evaluate Mutation Text Mining Systems Presenter: Artjom Klein University of New Brunswick Saint John, Canada
		Connecting Vocabularies in Linked Data Presenter: Nadia Anwar General Bioinformatics Reading, United Kingdoms Presentation (pdf)
10:50 am - 11:15 am	Break
11:15 am - 12:30 pm	Drug Discovery, Linked Data	Bio2RDF Release 2: Improved coverage, Interoperability and Provenance of Life Science Linked Data Presenter: Michel Dumontier Carleton University Ottawa, Canada
		The ISA Infrastructure for the Biosciences: from Data Curation at Source to the Linked Data Cloud Presenter: Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran University of Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom Presentation (pdf)
		Producing, Publishing and Consuming Linked Data Three Lessons from the Bio2RDF Project Presenter: François Belleau Centre de recherche du CHUQ Laval University Québec, Canada
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm	Keynote 4 From Linked Data to Networked Knowledge or Science is a Social Construct Presentation (pdf) STEFAN DECKER, PhD National University of Ireland, Galway Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) Ireland
2:20 pm - 2:40 pm	Tech Talk 3	Enabling Drug Discovery Applications Through a Linked Data Platform Presenter: Alasdair J G Gray University of Manchester, UK
2:45 pm – 3:05 pm	Tech Talk 4	Practical Usage of Linked Data and Semantic Annotations by the Enterprise Presenter: Vassil Momtchev, Ontotext, Bulgaria
3:10 pm – 3:35 pm	Linked Data	Yes, We Can! Lessons from Using Linked Open Data (LOD) and Public Ontologies to Contextualize and Enrich Experimental Data Presenter: Erich A. Gombocz IO Informatics, Inc., Berkeley, CA, USA Presentation (pdf)
3:40 pm – 4:00 pm	Future Actions and Conference Closing Remarks Jonas Almeida & Ted Slater, Conference Chairs
4:00 pm	Conference Adjourns
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