HealthNLP 2019: The second International Workshop on Health Natural Language Processing
Wang Sam
[Apologies for cross posting]
The second International
Workshop on Health Natural Language Processing, June 10th, Beijing, China (https://ohnlp.github.io/HealthNLP2019/healthnlp2019)
Call for Papers (Deadline Mar. 25, 2019)
Chairs
Hua Xu, PhD (contact), Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics, The
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, US.
Ozlem Uzuner, PhD, Associate Professor, Information Sciences and Technology,
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, US.
Yanshan Wang, PhD, Research Associate, Biomedical Informatics, Mayo Clinic,
Rochester, MN, US.
We cordially invite you to
submit your contribution to the second International Workshop on Health
Natural Language Processing (HealthNLP 2019).
Introduction
In the past few decades, growing adoption of electronic health records (EHRs)
systems have made massive clinical narrative data available electronically.
Natural language processing (NLP) technologies that can unlock information from
narrative text have received great attention in the medical domain. Many
clinical NLP methods and systems have been developed and showed promising
results in various information extraction tasks. These methods and tools have
also been successfully applied to facilitate clinical research, as well as to
support healthcare applications. At the same time, the availability and use of
health information online has exploded through use of social media,
question-answering and community discussion forums, and health-related
websites. These present additional challenges and opportunities for further
development of new methodologies and healthcare applications.
The goal of this workshop is to provide a unique platform to bring together
researchers and practitioners in healthcare informatics working with
health-related free text, and facilitate close interaction among students,
scholars, and industry professionals on health NLP challenges worldwide. This
is a one-day workshop that consists of invited speakers, podium talks, and
poster presentations.
We invite papers and short abstracts on novel approaches, works in progress,
comparative analyses of tools, and original state-of-the-art work in health NLP
methods, tools, and applications. Selected papers will be presented as podium
talks, and other interesting submissions and abstracts will be showcased as
poster presentations.
Audience
Target audience includes both health NLP researchers and consumers. Anyone
interested in NLP-based approaches, solutions, and applications in clinical,
biomedical, and consumer health informatics is welcome. Researchers and
students working on health NLP projects and others interested in learning about
and sharing NLP knowledge and resources are strongly encouraged to attend. We
also welcome students who wish to closely interact with NLP experts. Potential
attendees may come from NLP communities in the medical domain (e.g., AMIA NLP
Working Group, BioNLP) and computer and information scientists and linguists
working on health-related text processing (e.g., with interests in ACL, EMNLP,
NAACL, TREC Precision Medicine and Clinical Decision Support tracks, etc.), as
well as general health informatics professionals and researchers.
Submission and Review
Authors may submit regular papers (4-10 pages, including references) and
abstracts (2 pages, including references) in the format used for the ICHI
submissions. Developers of NLP tools may submit a demo paper (up to 4 pages, including
references) describing the tool, along with a link to a web demonstration
(interactive website or a demonstration video). As with ICHI, the workshop will
follow single-blind reviewing, therefore submissions should have the names and
affiliations of authors listed on the paper. Papers must adhere to the IEEE
Proceedings Format available for LaTeX and Word, and submitted as a single PDF
file. Submissions will be handled electronically through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=healthnlp2019)
using HealthNLP 2019 track. For more information, please read the detailed
submission instructions (link here).
All submissions will undergo a peer review by at least two domain experts from
the program committee. The selection of papers and posters will be primarily
based on the potential to generate discussion and impact future research
directions. Accepted papers will be included in the ICHI 2019 Proceedings and
IEEE Digital Library. Plans are underway to also invite authors of selected
papers to publish an extended version of their work in a special issue of BMC
Medical Informatics and Decision Making journal.
Important Dates
Deadline for all submissions: March 25th, 2019
Notification of decisions: April 15th, 2019
Workshop date: June 10th, 2019