Call for papers
In an era when massive amounts of medical data became available, researchers working in biological, biomedical and clinical domains have increasingly started to require the help of language engineers to process large quantities of biomedical and molecular biology literature (such as PubMed), patient data or health records. Linking the contents of these documents to each other, as well as to specialized ontologies, could enable access to and discovery of structured clinical information and foster a major leap in natural language processing and health research.
MEDA-2018 aims to gather innovative approaches for the exploitation of biomedical data using semantic web technologies and linked data by bringing together practitioners, researchers, and scholars to share examples, use cases, theories and analysis of biomedical data. The main objective of this second edition workshop is to consolidate an internationally appreciated forum for scientific research in BioMed, with emphasis on crowdsourcing, semantic web, knowledge integration and data linking.
Topics
The scientific program of MEDA-2018 will focus around the following topics:
- Crowdsourcing approaches in biomedicine
- Collaborative computational technologies for biomedical research
- Biomedical digital libraries
- Mining biomedical literature
- Event-based text mining for biology and related fields
- Event and entity extraction in medical texts
- Conceptual graphs extracted from medical texts
- Annotation of semantic content, with applications in medicine and biology
- Techniques for Big Data in Healthcare
- Medical search engines
- Distributed communication system in biomedical applications
- Deep learning for bioinformatics
- Biomedical question/answering
- Biomedical topic modeling
- Biomedical language systems
- Text summarization in the biomedical domain.
Submission
We invite submissions of papers (up to 8 pages), representing original, previously unpublished research, innovative approaches and resource types, use cases or in-depth discussions.
Submissions must use the PDF file format and must adopt the style of the ACM Proceedings.
Submissions that exceed the page limit will be rejected without review.
All submissions must be submitted online through the EasyChair system following the submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=meda2018.
Authors of all accepted papers will be invited to provide an extended version of their MEDA submission to be included in the Data Journal. Data is an open access journal on data in science, indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) - Web of Science and Inspec (IET).
To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the MEDA2018 Program Committee. All reviews will be double blind, and hence authors are instructed not to include their identity, affiliation(s) or contact details, and to anonymity any references that would reveal the authorship of the paper. Papers submitted to other conferences or journals must state this fact.
At least one author of each paper must register using the JCDL registration page to have the paper published in the MEDA-2018 Proceedings. All accepted papers must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. The registration for JCDL2018 workshops (including MEDA 2018) will be managed by the JCDL organizers. Information is not updated yet, but from our experience with the last edition of JCDL, the fee ranged from 50 to 150 dollars, depending on the type of registration. Early registration is expected to end around 30 April. Please come back later or visit JCDL registration page for updated information.
Important dates
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April 27, 2018
final
Submission of papers
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April 30, 2018
Notification of acceptance
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May 3, 2018
Early registration deadline
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May 7, 2018
Camera-ready papers
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June 6, 2018
Workshop date
Venue
MEDA-2018 will be held as a half-day workshop at JCDL2018 - Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, in the afternoon of the 6th of June, 2018, in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. The JCDL-2018 website offers detailed information about the city, the venue, how to get there, visa and accommodation opportunities.
Accepted papers
In Progress...
Programme
MEDA 2018: 2nd Workshop on Curative Power of MEdical DAta
In Progress...
| Session Chairs: | Daniela Gîfu ("Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iași, Romania & Romanian Academy - Iași Branch) |
| Diana Trandabăț ("Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iași, Romania) |
| Kevin Cohen (Computational Bioscience Program U. Colorado School of Medicine, USA) |
| Jingbo Xia (Huazhong Agricultural University, P.R. China) |
Previous Editions
1st Workshop on Curative Power of MEdical DAta (MEDA 2017), September 14, 2017, Constanța, Romania
A satellite event of EUROLAN-2017 Summer School on Biomedical Text Processing
MEDA Workshop series has been initiated in 2017. The first edition took place in Romania, conjoint with EUROLAN 2017 Summer School. MEDA-2017 had 5 accepted papers and an acceptance rate of 75%. The proceedings of MEDA 2017, D. Gîfu and D. Trandabăț (eds.), have been published by "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University Publishing House, Iași, 2017.
