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#SMM4H 2022 : 7th Social Media Mining for Health Applications - Workshop & Shared Task at COLING 2022 | |||||||||||||||
Link: https://healthlanguageprocessing.org/smm4h-2022/ | |||||||||||||||
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Due to multiple requests, we are extending the deadline to August 20, 2022
============================= Last call for papers, submission deadline is August 20, 2022 Last call for shared task participation, evaluation period starts July 11, 2022 ============================= *Apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP* Location: Gyeongju, Republic of Korea Workshop Date: October 16-17, 2022 Important links: Workshop and Shared task: https://healthlanguageprocessing.org/smm4h-2022/ Submission link: https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/7thSMM4H/ The workshop will include two components — a standard workshop and a shared task Workshop The Social Media Mining for Health Applications (#SMM4H) workshop serves as a venue for bringing together researchers interested in automatic methods for the collection, extraction, representation, analysis, and validation of social media data (e.g., Twitter, Reddit, Facebook) for health informatics. The 7th #SMM4H Workshop, co-located at COLING 2022 (https://coling2022.org/index), invites 4-page paper (unlimited references in standard COLING format) submissions on original, unpublished research in all aspects at the intersection of social media mining and health. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Methods for the automatic detection and extraction of health-related concept mentions in social media Mapping of health-related mentions in social media to standardized vocabularies Deriving health-related trends from social media Information retrieval methods for obtaining relevant social media data Geographic or demographic data inference from social media discourse Virus spread monitoring using social media Mining health-related discussions in social media Drug abuse and alcoholism incidence monitoring through social media Disease incidence studies using social media Sentinel event detection using social media Semantic methods in social media analysis Classifying health-related messages in social media Automatic analysis of social media messages for disease surveillance and patient education Methods for validation of social media-derived hypotheses and datasets Shared task The workshop organizers this year are hosting 10 shared tasks i.e. NLP challenges as part of the workshop. Participating teams will be provided with a set of annotated posts for developing systems, followed by a three-day window during which they will run their systems on unlabeled test data and upload it to Codalab for evaluation. For additional details about the tasks and information about registration, data access, paper submissions, and presentations, go to https://healthlanguageprocessing.org/smm4h-2022/ Task 1 – Classification, detection, and normalization of Adverse Events (AE) mentions in tweets (in English) Task 2 – Classification of stance and premise in tweets about health mandates related to COVID-19 (in English) Task 3 – Classification of changes in medication treatments in tweets and WebMD reviews (in English) Task 4 – Classification of tweets self-reporting exact age (in English) Task 5 – Classification of tweets containing self-reported COVID-19 symptoms (in Spanish) Task 6 – Classification of tweets which indicate self-reported COVID-19 vaccination status (in English) Task 7 – Classification of self-reported intimate partner violence on Twitter (in English) Task 8 – Classification of self-reported chronic stress on Twitter (in English) Task 9 – Classification of Reddit posts self-reporting exact age (in English) Task 10 – Detection of disease mentions in tweets – SocialDisNER (in Spanish) Organizing Committee Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA Davy Weissenbacher, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA Arjun Magge, University of Pennsylvania, USA Ari Z. Klein, University of Pennsylvania, USA Ivan Flores, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA Karen O’Connor, University of Pennsylvania, USA Raul Rodriguez-Esteban, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland Lucia Schmidt, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland Juan M. Banda, Georgia State University, USA Abeed Sarker, Emory University, USA Yuting Guo, Emory University, USA Yao Ge, Emory University, USA Elena Tutubalina, Insilico Medicine, Hong Kong Luis Gasco, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Darryl Estrada, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Martin Krallinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Program Committee Cecilia Arighi, University of Delaware, USA Natalia Grabar, French National Center for Scientific Research, France Thierry Hamon, Paris-Nord University, France Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia Jin-Dong Kim, Database Center for Life Science, Japan Corrado Lanera, University of Padova, Italy Robert Leaman, US National Library of Medicine, USA Kirk Roberts, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA Yutaka Sasaki, Toyota Technological Institute, Japan Pierre Zweigenbaum, French National Center for Scientific Research, France Contact All questions should be emailed to Davy Weissenbacher (davy.weissenbacher@cshs.org) |
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