Medical Information Retrieval (MedIR) Workshop
A SIGIR 2016 workshop - Pisa, Italy - July, 21st 2016
Workshop programme
| 09:00-10:30 | Welcome Keynote by Pr Bill Hersh "Challenges for Information Retrieval and Text Mining in Biomedicine: Imperatives for Systems and Their Evaluation" - SLIDES |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:30 | Systematic Review is e-Discovery in Doctor's Clothing - Matthew Lease, Gordon V. Cormack, An T. Nguyen, Thomas A. Trikalinos and Byron C. Wallace - SLIDES Multimodal Biomedical Image Classification and Retrieval with Multi Response Linear Regression (MLR)-Based Meta Learning - Mahmudur Rahman and Prabir Bhattachrya Improving Health Consumer Search with Contextual Information - Alexander Beloborodov and Lorraine Goeuriot QuickUMLS: a fast, unsupervised approach for medical concept extraction - Luca Soldaini and Nazli Goharian. SLIDES - QuickUMLS on GitHub |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:30 |
What remains to be evaluated in Multilingual Medical Search? - Allan Hanbury Semantic Search Engine to Query into Electronic Health Records with a Multiple-Layer Query Language - Romain Lelong, Chloé Cabot, Lina F. Soualmia and Stefan Darmoni Adapting SMT Query Translation Reranker to New Languages in Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval - Shadi Saleh and Pavel Pecina - SLIDES Poster session |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00-17:30 |
Poster session Panel and discussion |
Papers presented at the poster session:
- Describing Health Querying Behavior - Anushia Inthiran, Saadat M Alhashmi and Pervaiz K Ahmed
- A Study of Challenges and Obstacles in Biomedical Data Search - Faris Abomelha, Ingo Frommholz and Paul Sant - POSTER
- Implicit Negative Feedback in Clinical Information Retrieval - Lorenz Kuhn and Carsten Eickhoff
- College Students from Developing Countries: Where do they Get Health Information? - Tesfahun Yilma, Anushia Inthiran and Daniel Reidpath
