<div dir="ltr"><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="docs-internal-guid-d7a576d5-ac61-035c-4fdb-6e4bb6d4a0d1"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Medical Information Retrieval (MedIR) Workshop </span></h2>
<h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://medir.dcu.ie/">http://medir.dcu.ie/</a></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br class="">
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</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">At SIGIR 2014, July 11 2014, Gold Coast, Australia </span></h2>
<br><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Call for Papers (2 & 4 page)</span></h2>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Submission deadline: **May 5**<br>
</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Medical
 information search refers to methodologies and technologies that seek 
to improve access to medical information archives via a process of 
information retrieval (IR). Such information is now potentially 
accessible from many sources including the general web, social media, 
journal articles, and hospital records. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Medical
 information is of interest to a wide variety of users, including 
patients and their families, researchers, general practitioners and 
clinicians, and practitioners with specific expertise such as 
radiologists. Despite the popularity of the medical domain for users of 
search engines, and current interest in this topic within the 
information retrieval research community, development of search and 
access technologies remains particularly challenging. One of the central
 issues in medical information search is diversity of the users of these
 services. In particular, they will have varying categories of 
information needs, varying levels of medical knowledge, and varying 
language skills. In addition, the format, reliability, and quality of 
biomedical and medical information varies greatly. A single health 
record can contain clinical notes, technical pathology data, images, and
 patient-contributed histories, and may be linked by a physician to 
research papers. The importance of health and medical topics and their 
impact on people’s everyday lives makes the need for retrieval of 
accurate and reliable information especially important. Determining the 
likely reliability of available information is challenging. Finally, as 
with information retrieval in general, the evaluation of medical search 
tools is vital and challenging.  For example, there are no established 
or standardized baselines or evaluation metrics, and limited 
availability of test collections.  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">This
 workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in medical 
information search with the goal of identifying specific research 
challenges that need to be addressed to advance the state-of-the-art and
 to foster interdisciplinary collaborations towards the meeting of these
 challenges. To enable this, we encourage participation from researchers
 in all fields related to medical information search including 
mainstream information retrieval, but also natural language processing, 
multilingual text processing, and medical image analysis.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Topics of interest include but are not limited to: </span></p>
<br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Users and information needs</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Semantics and NLP for medical IR</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Reliability and trust in medical IR</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Personalised search</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Evaluation of medical IR</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Multilingual issues in medical IR</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Multimedia technologies in medical IR</span></p>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The role of social media in medical IR</span></p>
</li></ul><br><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Paper Submissions </span></h2>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The
 workshop is now accepting paper submissions. Short papers (4 pages) and
 short position papers (2 pages) describing approaches or ideas / 
challenges on the topics of the workshop are invited. Submissions should
 be in ACM SIGS format. LaTeX and Word templates are available at</span><a href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates</span></a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> (for LaTeX, use the "Option 2" style).</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Papers should be anonymised for double blind review and submitted in pdf format through the EasyChair system </span><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medir2014" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medir2014</span></a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
 no later than midnight Pacific Daylight Time on April 28, 2014. 
Submissions will be reviewed by members of the workshop program 
committee. Accepted papers will be included in the SIGIR 2014 Medical 
Information Search Workshop proceedings.</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Important Dates </span></h2>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">April 28, 2014: Deadline for paper submission (midnight Pacific Daylight Time)</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br class="">
</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">May 10, 2014: Notification to authors</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br class="">
</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">May 17, 2014: Camera-ready papers due</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br class="">
</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">July 11, 2014: Workshop </span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Further Information</span></h2>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Further information is available on the workshop website at <a href="http://medir.dcu.ie/">http://medir.dcu.ie/</a> or by emailing the workshop organisers.</span></p>
<h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Workshop Organisers</span></h2>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Lorraine Goeuriot, Dublin City University, Ireland</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Gareth J.F. Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Liadh Kelly, Dublin City University, Ireland</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Justin Zobel, University of Melbourne, Australia</span></p>
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