29.270, Calls: Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Comp Ling/Germany

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Subject: 29.270, Calls: Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Comp Ling/Germany

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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:20:52
From: Steffen Remus [remus at informatik.uni-hamburg.de]
Subject: 1st Workshop on Biomedical Information Management: Challenges and Open Problems

Full Title: 1st Workshop on Biomedical Information Management: Challenges and Open Problems 

Date: 19-Feb-2018 - 20-Feb-2018
Location: Hamburg, Germany 
Contact Person: Steffen Remus
Meeting Email: remus at informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Web Site: http://bimdanube.eu/#ws1 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 19-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

The workshop is funded by the BIMDANUBE project (http://www.bimdanube.eu),
which aims at building a network of researchers and medical professionals in
the Danube states and across all Europe. While the main purpose is to get to
know each other and to foster exchange, we also target a major grant
application in the EU H2020 framework in 2019, and are actively looking for
partners form research and industry. The workshop will gather interested
professionals across Europe working in the information or medical domain, such
as medical researchers, medical doctors and entrepreneurs building their
business around biomedical ICT.

Background:

Recently, information management as a field faced several challenges. On one
hand, sophisticated technologies and standards were developed to support
knowledge-based modeling, such as domain ontologies including UMLS, SNOMED CT,
MeSH, Disease Ontology, and Gene Ontology and the Sematic Web description
languages and infrastructures including RDF, OWL, SPARQL and others. On the
other hand, however the current approaches face three major issues: (1)
knowledge bottleneck: required resources for knowledge management such as
domain ontologies are not available for many domains and languages; (2) the
overall approach of knowledge management did not get widely spread due to the
fact that it imposes a large burden on the user, such as annotation or
expertise with complex tools like Protégé; (3) modeling entire domains as
large as the medical domain with (English-oriented) knowledge resources does
not meet requirements of users, who are mostly specializing in a certain
sub-field and also need to operate in their local language.

Medical researchers have to process an enormous amount of the literature –
PubMed adds about half a million paper to its index each year. Literature
search and reasoning is demanding, because of the need to revealing and
maintaining many complex relationships between numerous sets of entities. In
order to alleviate the efforts of biomedical research related to literature we
seek a novel conception to information management, combining ontology-driven
with bottom-up approaches.

Venue:

The workshop will take place at the University of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany.
''University of Hamburg is the biggest research and education institution in
Northern Germany and one of the most extensive universities in Germany.
...with affiliated institutes and research centres spread around the city
state.'' [Wikipedia]

We are proud to announce the list of invited speakers:

- Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano, Semantic Computing Group, Bielefeld University
- Prof. Dr. Daniel A. Keim, Data Analysis and Visualization, University of
Konstanz
- Prof. Dr. Ulf Leser, Knowledge Management in Bioinformatics,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Prof. Dr. Udo Hahn, Jena University Language & Information Engineering Lab
(JULIE Lab), Jena University
- Prof. Hercules Dalianis, Ph.D., Clinical Text Mining Group, Human Language
Technology Group, Stockholm University
- Prof. Sophia Ananiadou, Ph.D., University of Manchester, National Centre for
Text Mining (NaCTeM)

2nd Call for Abstracts and Participation:

Deadline Extension for Abstract Submission: Jan 19, 2018

1st Workshop on Biomedical Information Management: Challenges and Open
Problems
Date: February 19/20, 2018
Location: Hamburg, Germany

Important Dates:

- Abstract Submission extended until Jan 19, 2018, 23:59 AOE (UTC-12)
- Confirmation for presentation: Jan 26, 2018
- Registration: free until Feb. 9, 2018 (sponsored by BIMDANUBE project, see
below)
- Workshop: 19-20 Feb, 2018

The goal of the workshop is to obtain answers to the following questions:

- Use Cases: Experiences with information and knowledge management solutions
actively used in the community
- Limitations of the current solutions
- Practitioner's view: Important problems in biomedical information management
that are not addressed and automatized yet
- Educator's view: Important information bottlenecks in teaching medical
students
- Proposals for next generation biomedical information management
- Artificial Intelligence in the Biomedical domain and in life sciences,
including image/video, laboratory, EEG/MRT, -omics and text data
- Stakeholder's perspectives: Practitioners, Administration, Insurances,
Researchers, Pharmaceutical Industry, ..

We invite abstracts up to 250 words, indicating your preference for a 15 or 30
Minute presentation.

Use the form at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfB7K0NsCDG4LX84A8Nx_I3nHxI_rxwTuXla4
6n40-xG0RXOw/viewform to submit abstracts and register for the conference.

The workshop will feature a series of long invited talks, participant's talks,
moderated panel discussions and ample time for networking and exchange.

Be part of this exciting opportunity! Contribute to the next generation of
biomedical information management!

Please find more information at http://www.bimdanube.eu/ws1, register at
http://www.bimdanube.eu/ws1/registration, or submit your inquiries to Steffen
Remus (remus at informatik.uni-hamburg.de). Looking forward to your
participation.

Workshop organizers:

- Chris Biemann, University of Hamburg, Germany
- Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz and Vienna University of
Technology, Austria
- Ljiljana Majnarić, University of Osijek, Croatia
- Svetla Boytcheva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
- Steffen Remus (local chair), University of Hamburg, Germany

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