The First International Workshop on

Web Science and Information Exchange in the Medical Web (MedEx 2010)

collocated with the 19th World Wide Web Conference 2010 April 26-30 2010 (half day), Raleigh Conference Center, Raleigh, NC, USA

http://www.l3s.de/medex2010


* Workshop Description *
The advent of Medicine 2.0 is increasingly making the Web a more accepted source of information for the medical domain and is also exploited for discussing medical problems and treatments. Health or-ganizations monitor online news repositories and web pages for relevant data on epidemiological events. Physicians learn about the experiences of their colleagues provided through social media plat-forms: such as weblogs, or forums. Moreover, patients can not only search for information, but also provide information about their experiences. This workshop is devoted to the technologies for dealing with social- and multi media for medical information gathering and exchange.

Information gathering from medical social- and multimedia poses many challenges given the increas-ing content on the Web and the trade off of filtering noise at the cost of losing information which is po-tentially relevant. These issues are compounded by their impact on both information producers and consumers in the health care community.


* Topics *
The aim of the workshop is to encourage researchers from the medical web science community to present novel issues and techniques related to medical intelligence (especially in the context of web science). This workshop is intended to address different aspects related to the problem of accessing, exchanging, processing, filtering and making applications that rely upon health related Web informa-tion more reliable and adaptable. The workshop will serve as a forum for the confluence of new and multidisciplinary ideas that will help to drive research in the areas of medical web text and data mining. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Analysis of medical social media data
o Ways and means of analysing large-scale medical web data
o Criteria and methods to determine the quality of health content
o Multilingual issues in health-related Web content

* Analysis of medical multi media data
o Classification of online medical media content (e.g., TV, radio, YouTube)
o Processing of medical media data

* Event Detection and information extraction in medical social/multi- media
o Event extraction from medical texts
o Identification of relationship between events

* Personalization in medical applications
o Personalized Biosurveillance
o Personalized e-Health solutions
o User models for health care applications

* Evaluation in medical web applications
o Quality of processing of medical social/multi- media data
o Methods for improving medical intelligence sensitivity and specificity
o Medical intelligence false alarm mitigation




* Important Dates *

February 1, 2010: Deadline for the submission of papers.
March 1, 2010: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection.
March 30, 2010: Workshop camera ready copy submission.
April XZ, 2010: MedEx: Web Science and Information Exchange in the Medical Web


* Submissions *

Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers of no more than 8 pages in the standard LNCS paper format. Paper should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Accepted pa-pers will be published in the workshop proceedings as a volume of CEUR-WS. Prospective authors are expected to present their papers at the workshop. Selected papers of the workshop will be pub-lished in a special issue of a journal.

* Organizing Committee *

Kerstin Denecke (L3S Research Center, Germany) Peter Dolog (Aalborg University, Denmark) Pavel Smrz (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) Jens Linge (Joint Research Center, Italy) Wolfgang Nejdl (L3S Research Center and Knowledge Based System Department, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany) Avare Stewart (L3S Research Center, Germany)

* Programme Committee *

see the Website

* Contact *
Kerstin Denecke, Peter Dolog
Email: medex2010 [at] L3S [dot] de