healthnlp2019: HealthNLP2019 Beijing, China, June 10-13, 2019 |
Conference website | https://ohnlp.github.io/HealthNLP2019/healthnlp2019 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=healthnlp2019 |
Submission deadline | March 25, 2019 |
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. The workshop will be held on June 10th, 2019, at Beijing, China, in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2019).
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.
Submission Guidelines
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). For more information, please read the detailed submission instructions (link here).
Committees
Chairs
- Hua Xu, PhD (contact), Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, US. email
- Ozlem Uzuner, PhD, Associate Professor, Information Sciences and Technology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, US. email
- Yanshan Wang, PhD, Research Associate, Biomedical Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, US. email
Steering committee
- Wendy Chapman, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, US. email
- Dina Demner Fushman, MD, PhD, Scientist, Lister Hill Center, National Library of Medicine, US. email
- Hongfang Liu, Professor, Biomedical Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, US. email
- Stephane Meystre, MD, PhD, Chair and Founding Director, Translational Biomedical Informatics Center, Associate Professor, Psychiatry Department and Biomedical Informatics Center, Medical University of South Carolina, US. email
- Guergana Savova, PhD, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, US. email
- Buzhou Tang, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China. email
- Karin Verspoor, PhD, Professor, School of Computing and Information Systems and Deputy Director of the Health and Biomedical Informatics Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia email
- Pierre Zweigenbaum, PhD, Head of LIMSI, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris, France, email
Invited Speakers
- TBD
Venue
The workshop will be held on June 10th, 2019, at Beijing, China, in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2019).
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Hua Xu.