AMIA-NLP-WG-2020: AMIA NLP-WG Fall 2020 Presymposium Meeting November 14, 2020 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amianlpwg2020 |
Submission deadline | September 6, 2020 |
AMIA 2019 NLP Working Group Pre-Symposium:
Graduate Student Consortium and NLP Applications for COVID-19
Nov 14, 2020
Virtual
Advances in Natural Language Processing have made these methods a crucial component of many health applications. These advances have led to incorporation of NLP systems into many real-life health applications, going beyond English language and extending to multiple languages. Thus, the reach and impact of NLP technologies have been growing. This pre-symposium meeting aims to bring together academic, research, and industry participants from around the world with an interest in NLP and provide a venue for sharing recent ground-breaking developments in the field, while also providing an opportunity for mentoring of junior NLP researchers through a doctoral consortium. The sessions planned during this event include: a doctoral consortium, and a session on NLP for COVID-19 that presents methods, systems, and applications.
Program
The pre-symposium will include two sessions: (1) The graduate student consortium, and (2) NLP for COVID-19.
Graduate students consortium:
Consortium is open to both PhD and Masters students. The purpose of the graduate student consortium is to provide opportunities for direct interactions between students and researchers in the biomedical and clinical NLP fields, so that students can 1) refine their research focus; 2) discuss specific questions about study design, algorithm development, or evaluation plan; 3) receive constructive feedback and suggestions about their dissertation work; and 4) establish possible collaborations.
We invite advanced graduate students to submit abstracts for a podium presentation of their graduate research work (in the biomedical and clinical NLP fields) to this session. Abstracts should explain the problem, and its challenges, as well as the novelty and significance of the work. Following peer review, accepted papers will be presented in plenary forums and assessed for:
- Presentation (slides, speech clarity and rhythm)
- Significance (real problem, real people, and potential impact)
- Innovation (new or improved, in one field or broader)
- Approach (appropriate research design, methods used, and feasibility)
- Environment (adequate resources, supervisors/collaborators, guidance)
Consortium submissions are suggested to include the following sections:
- Aims and Objectives - State the main objective(s) of your project.
- Justification for the Research Topic - Explain the motivations for your project.
- Research Questions - Stating your research question is essential. This might be done in a list.
- Research Methodology - If you already have plans for your research methodology, explain them here. If you have not found an appropriate methodology yet, or wonder which one to choose, this is also the place to mention it. In this case, list the requirements your methodology should fulfill.
- Research Results to Date - You are not required to have results. But if you already have some, present them here.
- References – Any relevant citations.
NLP for COVID-19:
This session will focus on methods, systems, and applications developed in response to the pandemic. We would like to engage the community in a discussion around annotated corpus creation, system development, deployment, and contributions of NLP to the efforts against the pandemic.
We note that these research questions are being addressed internationally. Languages other than English are of interest to the community as they represent a low resource context, compared to English. We invite researchers to present insight on these issues, either as “lessons learned” over the course of several projects, or specific experiments. Reports on work that evidences clinical or linguistic issues specific to a particular geographical area or language other than English are encouraged.
Program Committee
- Özlem Uzuner (chair), PhD, FACMI, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
- Meliha Yetişgen (vice chair), PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Dina Demner-Fushman, PhD, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD
- Aurelie Neveol, PhD, LIMSI, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
- Hongfang Liu (past chair), PhD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
- Stephane Meystre, MD, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
- Jon Patrick, PhD, Health Language Analytics, Sydney, Australia
- Hua Xu, PhD, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX
- Pierre Zweigenbaum, PhD, LIMSI, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
Important Dates
- Submission Deadline:
August 31, 2020September 6, 2020 - Notification of Acceptance: October 1, 2020
- Workshop: November 14, 2020
Submission Guidelines
All submissions have a page limit of 2 pages using AMIA Template. Please submit through the easychair link below.
Submission Method
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amianlpwg2020
Questions and Comments
For questions please contact Özlem Uzuner or Meliha Yetişgen.