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SIIRH2020 – ECIR2020 workshop sponsored by LASIGE (COVID-19 related keynote talks)

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Francisco Couto (LASIGE integrated member) and Martin Krallinger (Text Mining unit at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)) are the Organizers of the Semantic Indexing and Information Retrieval for Health (SIIRH2020), that will be held in conjunction with the 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2020), in Lisbon, at the 14th of April.

The Programme Committee also include other LASIGE members as André Lamúrias, Diana Sousa, Márcia Barros and Pedro Ruas.

The workshop and the conference will be open online events, free registration at: https://ecir2020.org/registration/.

And recent COVID-19 international initiatives will be the focus of the keynote talks at the workshop:

1 – COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) by Kyle Lo and Lucy Lu Wang “In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Allen Institute for AI has partnered with leading research groups to prepare and distribute the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), a free resource of over 45,000 scholarly articles, including over 33,000 with full text, about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses for use by the global research community”.

2 – CoronaTracker by Cher Han Lau “CORONATRACKER.com is a community-based project powered by over 460 volunteers from across the globe, ranging from data scientists, medical professionals, UI/UX designers, fullstack developers, to the general public. It acts as a portal for the public to keep track of the latest news development about the COVID-19, alongside collecting data for further analysis”.

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 BioASQ, keynote talk by George Paliouras, and the MESINESP task. Moreover, the workshop will include the presentation of recent works 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.

https://www.lasige.di.fc.ul.pt/node/3673

[CfP] Workshop on Semantic Indexing and Information Retrieval for Health from heterogeneous content types and languages

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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/