<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">[Apologies for multiple postings]<br><br>*** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ***<br><br>EACL 2014 Workshop - The Fifth International Workshop on Health Text <br>Mining and Information Analysis (Louhi 2014)<br><a href="http://dsv.su.se/louhi2014">http://dsv.su.se/louhi2014</a><br><br>Location: EACL 2014, in Gothenburg, Sweden (April 27, 2014)<br><br>Submission deadline: January 23, 2014<br><br>** Call for Papers **<br><br>The Fifth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information <br>Analysis provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers interested in <br>automated processing of health documents. Health documents encompass <br>electronic health records, clinical guidelines, spontaneous reports for <br>pharmacovigilance, biomedical literature, health forums/blogs or any other <br>type of health-related documents. The Louhi workshop series started in 2008 <br>in Turku, Finland and has previously been organized four times. Louhi 2010 <br>was co-located with NAACL in Los Angeles and Louhi 2011 with Artificial <br>Intelligence in Medicine (AIME) in Bled, Slovenia. The latest edition, Louhi <br>2013, was held in Sydney.<br><br>Louhi 2014 is soliciting long and short papers describing original research. <br>Long papers (8 pages excluding references) must describe substantial and <br>completed work. Short papers (4 pages excluding references) typically <br>describe a focused contribution, a negative result, a software package or work <br>in progress. The areas include, but are not limited to, the following language <br>processing techniques and related areas:<br><br>* Techniques supporting information extraction, e.g. named entity <br>recognition, negation and uncertainty detection<br>* Classification and text mining applications (e.g. diagnostic classifications <br>such as ICD-10 and nursing intensity scores) and problems (e.g. handling of <br>unbalanced data sets)<br>* Text representation, including dealing with data sparsity and dimensionality <br>issues<br>* Domain adaptation, e.g. adaptation of standard NLP tools (incl. tokenizers, <br>PoS-taggers, etc) to the medical domain<br>* Information fusion, i.e. integrating data from various sources, e.g. <br>structured and narrative documentation<br>* Unsupervised methods, including distributional semantics<br>* Evaluation, gold/reference standard construction and annotation<br>* Syntactic, semantic and pragmatic analysis of health documents<br>* Anonymization / de-identification of health records and ethics<br>* Supporting the development of medical terminologies and ontologies<br>* Individualization of content, consumer health vocabularies, summarization <br>and simplification of text<br>* NLP for supporting documentation and decision making practices<br>* Predictive modeling of adverse events, e.g. adverse drug events and hospital <br>acquired infections<br><br>We welcome submissions on topics related to text mining of health <br>documents, particularly emphasizing multidisciplinary aspects of health <br>documentation and the interplay between nursing and medical sciences, <br>information systems, computational linguistics and computer science. We also <br>encourage submissions reporting on work for minor languages, representing <br>the diverse challenge that traits in different languages pose to common tasks.<br><br>** Important Dates **<br><br>Long and short paper submission deadline: 23 January 2014<br>Notification to authors: 20 February 2014<br>Paper camera-ready due: 3 March 2014<br>Workshop: 27 April 2014<br><br>** Submission Instructions **<br><br>For Louhi 2014, the following two types of submissions will be accepted: long <br>papers (8 pages excluding references) and short papers (4 pages excluding <br>references).<br><br>Submissions go through a rigorous, double-blind review process, where each <br>submission is reviewed by three program committee members. The initial <br>manuscript submission should therefore not include acknowledgments, <br>authors' names or affiliations. Extensive referring to own previous work <br>should also be avoided. The submissions will be judged on originality, <br>relevance, technical quality and presentation. <br><br>Accepted papers will be presented by the authors in a regular workshop <br>session. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. <br>Similar to previous Louhi workshops, authors of selected papers will be <br>offered the possibility to submit extended papers for potential publication in <br>a special issue of a high-impact journal, e.g. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine <br>as for Louhi 2013.<br><br>Louhi 2014 will only accept electronic submission via its START submission <br>system (a link will soon appear on the workshop Web page). The submissions <br>should be in PDF format and anonymized for review. All submissions must <br>follow the EACL 2014 formatting requirements (available on the EACL 2014 <br>website). We strongly advise the use of the Word or LaTeX template files <br>provided by EACL 2014: <a href="http://www.eacl2014.org/files/eacl-2014-styles.zip">http://www.eacl2014.org/files/eacl-2014-styles.zip</a><br><br>Submitted papers should describe original work. Simultaneous submission to <br>other forums (e.g. other conferences with published proceedings) is not <br>allowed. A significant overlap in content with previously published work <br>should be clearly indicated to the program committee.<br><br>** Invited Speaker **<br><br>Sophia Ananiadou, professor in the School of Computer Science at the <br>University of Manchester and director of the National Centre for Text Mining <br>(NaCTeM).<br><br>** Organizers **<br><br>Louhi 2014 is organized by the Clinical Text Mining Group at the Department <br>of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV) at Stockholm University.<br><br>Chair: Sumithra Velupillai<br>Program Co-chairs: Hercules Dalianis, Maria Kvist and Martin Duneld<br>Publication Chair: Martin Duneld<br>Local Organization Chairs: Maria Skeppstedt and Aron Henriksson<br><br>** Programme Committee **<br><br>Anette Hulth, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Karolinska <br>Institutet, Sweden<br>Antti Airola, University of Turku, Finland<br>Barbro Back, Ĺbo Akademi University, Finland<br>Beáta Megyesi, Uppsala University, Sweden<br>David Martinez, NICTA, Australia<br>Dimitris Kokkinakis, University of Gothenburg, Sweden<br>Filip Ginter, University of Turku, Finland<br>Gintaré Grigonyté, Stockholm University, Sweden<br>Hanna Suominen, NICTA, Australia<br>Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, <br>Switzerland<br>Jon D. Patrick, Health Language Laboratories, Australia<br>Jong C. Park, KAIST Computer Science, Korea<br>Jussi Karlgren, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden<br>Lawrence Cavedon, RMIT University, Australia<br>Mats Wirén, Stockholm University, Stockholm<br>Özlem Uzuner, MIT, USA<br>Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, Computer Sciences Laboratory for Mechanics and <br>Engineering Sciences, France<br>Richárd Farkas, Institute of Informatics, Hungary<br>Sabine Bergler, Concordia University, Canada<br>Sampo Pyysalo, University of Tokyo, Japan<br>Sanna Salanterä, University of Turku, Finland<br>Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, U.K.<br>Stefan Schulz, Graz General Hospital and University Clinics, Austria<br>Stephen Anthony, The Kirby Institute for infection and immunity in society, <br>Australia<br>Tapio Salakoski, University of Turku, Finland<br>Thomas Brox Rřst, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway<br>Wray Buntine, NICTA, Australia<br><div>
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