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HealTAC 2026 will bring the academic, clinical, industrial and patient communities together to discuss the current state of the art in processing healthcare free text and share experience, results and challenges. This year’s topic is "Human-Centered AI & NLP: Bridging Research and Real-World Practice".

Paper Submission

Research Paper Submission Tracks

Ethical Issues
Human-Centered AI & NLP: Bridging Research and Real-World Practice
Processing healthcare narrative and speech
Methodological advances
Design and deployment challenges
Integration with other healthcare data

Call for Papers Description

Extended abstracts will describe either methodological or application work that has not been previously presented in a conference. Contributions should consist of up to 2 pages, excluding references and a study context section. Submissons for software demonstrations and panel discussions may also be made. Descriptions of ongoing PhD research or planned fellowship applications may be submitted, up to 4 pages.

Committee

Program chairs

Arlene Casey

University of Edinburgh

Phoey Teh

Prifysgol Wrecsam / Wrexham University

Conference chairs

Angus Roberts

King's College London

Elizabeth Ford

Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Speakers

Aline Villavicencio

Professor of Natural Language Processing

Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter

Martin Krallinger

Head of the NLP for Biomedical Information Analysis team

Barcelona Supercomputing Center