D eveloping evidence to improve clinical practice and disseminating it to be used by clinicians to improve outcomes for individual patients is important. How long does it take to get evidence into practice? The standard refrain of “17 years to move evidence into practice” is repeated by researchers and clinicians alike with despair.1,2 Rather than accepting the inevitability of a long lag in tr...

Introduction The theme of the Conference Changing practice through research: Changing research through practice addresses one of the greatest challenges faced by researchers and practitioners in post-compulsory education and training. Changing practice through research is essential to ensure that learning environments in formal educational institutions and the workplace facilitate the developme...

As an academic in the School of Computer Science at Queen’s University, a visiting researcher to the Automated Scheduling, Opimisation and Planning (ASAP) group within the School of Computer Science and IT at the University of Nottingham and Managing Director of eventMAP Limited, a university technological spin out company, the author is in a unique position to provide comments on both the prac...

This is an exciting time in clinical natural language processing (NLP). Many of the ideas discussed in the NLP community over the last decade have finally come to fruition: we have had shared tasks in the clinical arena [1, 2]; several NLP pipelines have been released as open source resources [3, 4]; the community is working together to develop standards that will increase interoperability of N...