CLEFeHealth2012 and Louhi2013: Call for extended abstracts (by May 31) and papers (by Oct 15)

The eHealth@NICTA team is excited to announce the first call for submissions of the CLEFeHealth2012  and Louhi2013 workshops on eHealth language processing and ICT evaluation. We encourage submitting first a 1-2 page abstract to CLEFeHealth in May and then a 6-page paper to Louhi2013 in October; mentoring is provided for students who wish to follow this guideline. Please distribute the call among your colleagues.

Best Regards,

Chair of the workshops:  Hanna Suominen (Researcher, PhD; NICTA, Canberra Research Laboratory)

CLEFeHEALTH2012

CLEFeHealth2012 is the CLEF2012 workshop on cross-language evaluation of methods, applications, and resources for eHealth document analysis with a focus on written and spoken natural-language processing. NICTA organises it in Rome, Italy on 17-20 September 2012.

The workshop is calling for 1-2 page abstracts by 31 May 2012 (flyer and web).

Louhi2013

Louhi2013 is an international workshop on health document text mining and information analysis. NICTA organises the workshop in Sydney, NSW, Australia on 11-12 February 2013 in collaboration with the Australian Health Informatics Summer School (Sydney, 4-8 Feb). Inspired by CLEF2012 and linked with CLEFeHealth2012, the focus of this fourth Louhi workshop is on

• syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic analysis of health documents;
• mono- and multilingual methods, applications, and resources for their automated processing and intelligent re-use;
• cross-language evaluation health documentation and their processing methods, applications, and resources; and
• methods, resources, and infrastructure for this cross-language evaluation.

The workshop is calling for 6-page submissions by 15 Oct 2012 (flyer and web):

• research papers,
• case studies,
• ICT demonstrations, and
• work in progress descriptions.