MEDEX 2011 - 2nd International Workshop on Web Science and Information Exchange in the Medical Web (MedEx 2011)

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Category MEDEX 2011

Deadline: July 08, 2011 | Date: October 28, 2011

Venue/Country: Glasgow, U.K.

Updated: 2011-06-30 07:33:29 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

http://meco-project.eu/medex2011

This workshop is devoted to the technologies for dealing with social- and multi media for medical information gathering and exchange. This specific data and the processes of information gathering poses many chal-lenges given the increasing content on the Web and the trade off of filtering noise at the cost of losing information which is potentially relevant. These issues are compounded by their impact on both information producers and consumers in the health care community.

Important Dates

July 8, 2011: Deadline for the submission of papers.

July 30, 2011: Notification of acceptance/rejection.

August 12, 2011: Workshop camera ready submission.

October 28, 2011: Workshop Day

Topics

The workshop theme and topics are reflecting the latest discussion in that upcoming field and comprise the analysis of medical social media data and multi media data, including event detection and information extraction in this field. Even though it would be very useful, personalization techniques are still not integrated or only implemented to a limited extent in medical applications. Evaluation of implemented medical applications working with Medical Web data is still a problem due to missing annotated data sets and gold standards. This workshop is intended to encourage researchers thinking also into this direction.

Analysis of medical social media data

Ways and means of analysing large-scale medical web data

Criteria and methods to determine the quality of health content

Multilingual issues in health-related Web content

Processing streams of social media data

Analysis of medical multi media data

Classifying medical media content (e.g., TV, Radio, YouTube)

Processing of medical media data

Event Detection and information extraction in medical social/multi- media

Event extraction from medical texts

Identification of relationship between events

Personalization in medical applications

Personalized biosurveillance

Personalized e-Health solutions

User models for health care applications

Evaluation in medical web applications

Quality of processing of medical social/multi- media data

Methods for improving medical intelligence sensitivity and specificity

Medical intelligence false alarm mitigation

Submissions

Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers of no more than 8 pages in the ACM SIG Proceedings templates format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Paper should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical quality. Accepted papers will be published as part of the CIKM workshop proceedings on CD, and online in ACM digital library. Prospective authors are expected to present their papers at the workshop. Selected papers of the workshop will be published in a special issue of a journal.

Submission is now open at EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medex2011

Programme Committee

Pavel Smrz, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA

Richi Nayak, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Jens Linge, Joint Research Center, Italy

Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S Research Center, Germany

Annette Hulth, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Sweden

Nigam Shah, Stanford University, USA

Clement Jonquet, Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and Microelectronics, France

Ben Hachey, Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre, Australia

Contact

Kerstin Denecke denecke [AT] L3S.de