Asif, M., Martiniano, H.F.M.C., Marques, A.R. et al. Identification of biological mechanisms underlying a multidimensional ASD phenotype using machine learning. Transl Psychiatry 10, 43 (2020).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-020-0721-1

by: Márcia Barros; André Moitinho; Francisco M. Couto

accepted at ECIR 2020 (Core A).

Pre-print available at:  https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.07440

Call for papers
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The First Workshop on Semantic Indexing and Information Retrieval for Health from heterogeneous content types and languages (SIIRH2020)
Held in conjunction with the 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2020)

Workshop
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This workshop will be a forum where the community can present and discuss current and future directions for the area based on the experience and results obtained in the BioASQ MESINESP task (http://temu.bsc.es/mesinesp/).

In addition to the MESINESP session, the workshop will include an Open Session covering IR technologies for heterogeneous health-related content open to multiple languages with a particular interest in the exploitation of structured controlled vocabularies and entity linking.

Open Session Topics
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– multilingual and non-English health related IR, concept indexing and text categorization strategies;
– generation of evaluation resources for health and biomedical document IR strategies;
– scalability, robustness and reproducibility of health and biomedical IR and text mining resources;
– use of specialized machine translation and advanced deep learning approaches for improving health related search results;
– medical Question Answering search tools;
– retrieval of multilingual health related web-content;
– other related topics.

Important Dates (Open Session)
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Submission Deadline:  27 January 2020 (11:59pm GMT)
Acceptance Notification: 28 February 2020 (11:59pm GMT)
Camera Ready Contributions: 30 March 2020 (11:59pm GMT)
Workshop: 14 April 2020 in Lisbon, Portugal

Additional Information
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https://sites.google.com/view/siirh2020/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338765654_Proposal_of_the_First_International_Workshop_on_Semantic_Indexing_and_Information_Retrieval_for_Health_from_heterogeneous_content_types_and_languages_SIIRH

Diana Sousa will be attending the Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon 6, with the project Annotation of Human Phenotype-Gene Relations.

4-7 February 2020

Tokyo, Japan

The preprint of the article BiOnt: Deep Learning using Multiple Biomedical Ontologies for Relation Extraction accepted at ECIR 2020 as short paper is now available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.07139.

BiOnt: Deep Learning using Multiple Biomedical Ontologies for Relation Extraction by Diana Sousa and Francisco M. Couto was accepted at ECIR 2020 (Core A).

by: Márcia Barros; André Moitinho; Francisco M. Couto

IEEE Access (Early Access)

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8924687

The Cell and Mollecular Biology Nucleus of FCT/UNL organized a BioInformatics Workshop lead by Francisco Couto.