34.3752, Calls: First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing

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Subject: 34.3752, Calls: First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing

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Date: 12-Dec-2023
From: Paul Thompson [paul.thompson at manchester.ac.uk]
Subject: First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing


Full Title: First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing
Short Title: CL4Health

Date: 20-May-2024 - 20-May-2024
Location: Torino, Italy
Contact Person: Paul Thompson
Meeting Email: paul.thompson at manchester.ac.uk
Web Site: https://bionlp.nlm.nih.gov/cl4health2024/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Call Deadline: 05-Apr-2024

Meeting Description:

This first workshop on patient-oriented language processing aims to
establish a general venue for presenting research and applications
focused on patients’ needs, including summarizing health records for
the patients, answering consumer-health questions using reliable
resources, detecting misinformation or potentially harmful
information, and providing multi-modal information, such as video, if
it better satisfies patients’ needs. Such a venue is needed both to
invigorate patient-oriented language processing research and to build
a community of researchers interested in this area. The growing
interest in this topic is fueled by several current trends:

- a proliferation of online services that target patients but do not
always act in their best interests
- policy changes that allow patients to access their health records
written in the professional vernacular, which may confuse the patients
or lead to misinterpretation;
- replacement of customer services with chat bots; and
- the increasing tendency of patients to consult online resources as a
second or even first opinion on their health problems.

Call for Papers:

We invite papers concerning all areas of language processing focused
on patients’ health. The workshop will be centered on language
technologies for health-related issues concerning the public that
include, but are not limited to:

- accessibility and trustworthiness of health information provided to
the public
- explainable and evidence-supported answers to consumer-health
questions
- accurate summarization of patients’ health records at their
health-literacy level
- understanding patients' non-informational needs through their
language, and accurate and accessible interpretations of biomedical
research

Broadly, CL4Health is concerned with the resources, computational
approaches, and behavioral and socio-economic aspects of the public
interactions with digital resources in search of health-related
information that satisfies their information needs and guides their
actions.

The topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to
the following:

- Health-related information needs and online behaviors of the public
- Quality assurance and ethics considerations in language technologies
and approaches applied to text and other modalities for public
consumption
- Summarization of EHR data for patients
- Detection of misinformation in health-related resources and
mitigation of potential harms
- Consumer-health question answering
- Biomedical text simplification/adaptation
- Dialogue systems to support patients’ interactions with clinicians,
healthcare systems, and online resources
- Linguistic resources, data and tools for language technologies
focusing on consumer health
- Resources, strategies and metrics for system testing and evaluation
- Infrastructures and pre-trained language models for consumer health
- Processing and annotation platforms
- Synthetic data generation and data augmentation.


IMPORTANT DATES
(Tentative)

March 15, 2024 - Paper submissions due
April 5, 2024 - Camera-ready papers due
May 20, 2024 - Workshop @ LREC-COLING


SUBMISSIONS

Two types of submissions are invited:

- Full papers:  should not exceed eight (8) pages of text, plus
unlimited references. These are intended to be reports of original
research.
- Short papers:  may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus
unlimited references. Appropriate short paper topics include
preliminary results, application notes, descriptions of work in
progress, etc.

Electronic Submission: Submissions must be electronic and in PDF
format, using the Softconf START conference management system.
Submissions need to be anonymous. The submission site will be
announced shortly.

Dual submission policy: papers may NOT be submitted to the workshop if
they are or will be concurrently submitted to another meeting or
publication.

INVITED TALKS

- Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois Chicago
- Abeed Sarker, Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research in
Biomedical Informatics @ Emory School of Medicine
- Natalia Grabar, CNRS Researcher, Université de Lille

ORGANIZERS

- Dina Demner-Fushman, US National Library of Medicine
- Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining and University of
Manchester, UK
- Paul Thompson, National Centre for Text Mining and University of
Manchester, UK
- Brian Ondov, US National Library of Medicine



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