[Corpora-List] Call for papers - Special issue on Medical Information Retrieval

[Lorraine Goeuriot]

Call for Papers - Information Retrieval Special Issue on Medical
Information Retrieval
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Editors: Dr Lorraine Goeuriot, Dr Gareth J.F. Jones, Dr Liadh Kelly, Pr
Henning Mueller, Pr Justin Zobel

Submission deadline: December 15

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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.
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.
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.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Users and information needs
- Semantics and NLP for medical IR
- Reliability and trust in medical IR
- Personalised search
- Evaluation of medical IR
- Multilingual issues in medical IR
- Multimedia technologies in medical IR
- The role of social media in medical IR

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Paper Submissions:
Papers should be appropriate for journal publication. Submissions should
follow the guidelines set out by the Information Retrieval journal (under
the section “Instructions for authors).
Submissions to the Special Issue are received via the
http://www.editorialmanager.com/inrt/ website, by choosing the "S.I. :
Medical Information Retrieval”

All papers submitted to the special issue will be reviewed by at least 3
reviewers. Papers will appear online on the Springer journal website soon
after they are accepted.

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Important Dates:
- December 15, 2014: Deadline for paper submission (midnight Pacific
Daylight Time)
- March 1, 2015: Notification to authors
- May 15, 2015: Camera-ready papers due

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Contact:
Dr Lorraine Goeuriot (lorraine.goeuriot at imag.fr) and Dr Liadh Kelly (
liadh.kelly at scss.tcd.ie)
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