29.1535, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Belgium

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Subject: 29.1535, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Belgium

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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 18:41:00
From: Alberto Lavelli [lavelli at fbk.eu]
Subject: 9th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis

Full Title: 9th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis 
Short Title: LOUHI 2018 

Date: 31-Oct-2018 - 01-Nov-2018
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Alberto Lavelli
Meeting Email: lavelli at fbk.eu
Web Site: https://louhi2018.fbk.eu/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 06-Jul-2018 

Meeting Description:

Ninth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis
(LOUHI 2018)
https://louhi2018.fbk.eu/

Location: EMNLP 2018, in Brussels, Belgium (31 October or 1 November 2018)

The Ninth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information
Analysis provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers interested in
automated processing of health documents. Health documents encompass
electronic health records, clinical guidelines, spontaneous reports for
pharmacovigilance, biomedical literature, health forums/blogs or any other
type of health-related documents. LOUHI workshop series fosters interactions
between the Computational Linguistics, Medical Informatics and Artificial
Intelligence communities. It started in 2008 in Turku, Finland and has been
organized 8 times: LOUHI 2010 was co-located with NAACL in Los Angeles, CA;
LOUHI 2011 was co-located with Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME) in
Bled, Slovenia; LOUHI 2013 was held in Sydney, Australia during NICTA
Techfest; LOUHI 2014 was co-located with EACL in Gothenburg, Sweden; LOUHI
2015 was co-located with EMNLP in Lisbon, Portugal; LOUHI 2016 was co-located
with EMNLP in Austin, Texas; and LOUHI 2017 was held in Sydney, Australia.

Invited Speaker:

TBA

Organizers:

LOUHI 2018 is organized by the NLP group at FBK-ict in Trento, Italy.

Organization committee:

Alberto Lavelli (FBK, Trento, Italy)
Anne-Lyse Minard (IRISA, CNRS, Rennes, France)
Fabio Rinaldi (University of Zurich, Switzerland & FBK, Trento, Italy)

Programme Committee:

To Be Announced

Call for Papers:

LOUHI 2018 is soliciting papers describing original research. Papers must
describe substantial and completed work but could also focus on a
contribution, a negative result, a software package or work in progress. The
topics include, but are not limited to, the following language processing
techniques and related areas:

- Techniques supporting information extraction, e.g. named entity recognition,
negation and uncertainty detection
- Classification and text mining applications (e.g. diagnostic classifications
such as ICD-10 and nursing intensity scores) and problems (e.g. handling of
unbalanced data sets)
- Text representation, including dealing with data sparsity and dimensionality
issues
- Domain adaptation, e.g. adaptation of standard NLP tools (incl. tokenizers,
PoS-taggers, etc) to the medical domain
- Information fusion, i.e. integrating data from various sources, e.g.
structured and narrative documentation
- Unsupervised methods, including distributional semantics
- Evaluation, gold/reference standard construction and annotation
- Syntactic, semantic and pragmatic analysis of health documents
- Anonymization / de-identification of health records and ethics
- Supporting the development of medical terminologies and ontologies
- Individualization of content, consumer health vocabularies, summarization
and simplification of text
- NLP for supporting documentation and decision making practices
- Predictive modeling of adverse events, e.g. adverse drug events and hospital
acquired infections

We welcome submissions on topics related to text mining of health documents,
particularly emphasizing multidisciplinary aspects of health documentation and
the interplay between nursing and medical sciences, information systems,
computational linguistics and computer science. We also encourage submissions
reporting work on low-resourced languages, addressing the challenges of data
sparsity and language characteristic diversity.

Important Dates:

Long and Short Paper submission deadline: July 6, 2018
Notification to authors: August 10, 2018
Camera-ready papers due: August 31, 2018
Workshop: October 31 or November 1, 2018

Submission Instructions:

Submissions go through a double-blind review process, where each submission is
reviewed by three program committee members. Accepted papers will be presented
by the authors in a regular workshop session either as a talk or a poster. All
accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Accepted papers
will be invited for publication in Journal of biomedical semantics, after
passing a second post-workshop review for the journal. According to past
experiences, full papers / long papers tend to be mature enough for a short
review period, whereas short papers would have to be extended to a proper full
paper passing a full review.

The submissions should be in PDF format and anonymized for review. All
submissions must be written in English and follow the EMNLP 2018 formatting
requirements (available on the EMNLP 2018 website). We strongly advise the use
of the Word or LaTeX template files provided by EMNLP 2018
(http://www.emnlp2018.org).

- Long paper submission: up to 8 pages of content, plus 2 pages for
references; final versions of long papers: one additional page (so that
reviewers’ comments can be taken into account): up to 9 pages with unlimited
pages for references
- Short paper submission: up to 4 pages of content, plus 2 pages for
references; final version of short papers: up to 5 pages with unlimited pages
for references

Louhi 2018 will only accept electronic submission via its START submission
system (https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2018/louhi2018/).

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