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<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">Call for Papers -
Information Retrieval Special Issue on Medical Information
Retrieval</font></div>
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<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">Editors: Dr
Lorraine Goeuriot, Dr Gareth J.F. Jones, Dr Liadh Kelly,
Pr Henning Mueller, Pr Justin Zobel</font></div>
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<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">Submission
deadline: December 15</font></div>
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<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">Medical
information search refers to methodologies and
technologies that seek to improve access to medical
information archives via a process of information
retrieval (IR). Such information is now potentially
accessible from many sources including the general web,
social media, journal articles, and hospital records.</font></div>
<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">Medical
information is of interest to a wide variety of users,
including patients and their families, researchers,
general practitioners and clinicians, and practitioners
with specific expertise such as radiologists. Despite the
popularity of the medical domain for users of search
engines, and current interest in this topic within the
information retrieval research community, development of
search and access technologies remains particularly
challenging. One of the central issues in medical
information search is diversity of the users of these
services. In particular, they will have varying categories
of information needs, varying levels of medical knowledge,
and varying language skills. In addition, the format,
reliability, and quality of biomedical and medical
information varies greatly. A single health record can
contain clinical notes, technical pathology data, images,
and patient-contributed histories, and may be linked by a
physician to research papers. The importance of health and
medical topics and their impact on people’s everyday lives
makes the need for retrieval of accurate and reliable
information especially important. Determining the likely
reliability of available information is challenging.
Finally, as with information retrieval in general, the
evaluation of medical search tools is vital and
challenging. For example, there are no established or
standardized baselines or evaluation metrics, and limited
availability of test collections.</font></div>
<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">We encourage
participation from researchers in all fields related to
medical information search including mainstream
information retrieval, but also natural language
processing, multilingual text processing, and medical
image analysis.</font></div>
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<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">Topics of
interest include but are not limited to:</font></div>
<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Users and
information needs</font></div>
<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Semantics and
NLP for medical IR</font></div>
<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Reliability and
trust in medical IR</font></div>
<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Personalised
search</font></div>
<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Evaluation of
medical IR</font></div>
<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Multilingual
issues in medical IR</font></div>
<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Multimedia
technologies in medical IR</font></div>
<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">- The role of
social media in medical IR</font></div>
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<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">Paper
Submissions: </font></div>
<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">Papers should be
appropriate for journal publication. Submissions should
follow the guidelines set out by the Information Retrieval
journal (under the section “Instructions for authors).</font></div>
<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">Submissions to
the Special Issue are received via the <a
href="http://www.editorialmanager.com/inrt/">http://www.editorialmanager.com/inrt/</a>
website, by choosing the "S.I. : Medical Information
Retrieval”</font></div>
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<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">All papers
submitted to the special issue will be reviewed by at
least 3 reviewers. Papers will appear online on the
Springer journal website soon after they are accepted.</font></div>
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<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">Important Dates:</font></div>
<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">- December 15,
2014: Deadline for paper submission (midnight Pacific
Daylight Time)</font></div>
<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">- March 1, 2015:
Notification to authors</font></div>
<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">- May 15, 2015:
Camera-ready papers due</font></div>
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<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">Contact: </font></div>
<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dr Lorraine
Goeuriot (<a href="mailto:lorraine.goeuriot@imag.fr">lorraine.goeuriot@imag.fr</a>)
and Dr Liadh Kelly (<a
href="mailto:liadh.kelly@scss.tcd.ie">liadh.kelly@scss.tcd.ie</a>)</font></div>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Lorraine Goeuriot, PhD
Assistant Professor, Université Joseph Fourier
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~lgoeuriot/">http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~lgoeuriot/</a></pre>
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