MIR 2014 - Workshop on Medical Information Retrieval

Medical information is accessible from diverse sources including the general web, social media, journal articles, and hospital records; users include patients and their families, researchers, practitioners and clinicians. Challenges in medical information retrieval include: diversity of users and user ability; variations in the format, reliability, and quality of biomedical and medical information; the multimedia nature of data; and the need for accuracy and reliability. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in medical information search with the goal of identifying specific challenges that need to be addressed to advance the state-of-the-art.
Lorraine Goeuriot is a post-doctoral researcher in medical information processing and retrieval in Dublin City University. She obtained her Master in computer science and PhD in computational linguistics on medical data in the University of Nantes, France. She also worked as a post-doctoral researcher in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, on medical opinion mining. She is co-chair of the CLEF eHealth 2014 evaluation lab, and has been co-leading the information retrieval task in 2013 and 2014. She was publication co-chair for SIGIR 2013 and COLING 2014. She has been involved in two national French research projects and currently in EU project Khresmoi, on medical information access. She is reviewing papers for several medical informatics workshops and journals.
Gareth Jones is a Faculty member and Principal Investigator in the CNGL Centre for Global Intelligent Content, School of Computing, Dublin City University. He holds BEng and PhD degrees from the University of Bristol. He previously held posts at the University of Cambridge and University of Exeter, and was a Toshiba Fellow with the Toshiba Corporation in Japan. He has research interests in diverse topics areas of information retrieval, natural language and multimedia technologies, and human computer interaction. He has been PI on a number of funded projects including the Khresmoi project on medical information management. He was General co-Chair of ACM SIGIR 2013, Programme co-Chair of ECIR 2011 and IR Track chair of ACM CIKM 2010. He has published more than 300 papers describing his research several of which have received Best Paper Awards.
Liadh Kelly is a post-doctoral researcher in medical information retrieval at Dublin City University, Ireland. She completed a PhD in the lifelog retrieval space, also at Dublin City University, and holds MSc (Research) and BSc degrees in Computer Science from University College Dublin, Ireland. She is co-chair of the CLEF 2014 eHealth evaluation lab on medical information visualisation, extraction and retrieval, and co-lead of the retrieval task. She was publication co-chair for SIGIR 2013 and COLING 2014, has co-chaired several international symposiums and workshops, and regularly reviews for top international journals and conferences.
Henning Muller studied medical informatics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and then worked at Daimler-Benz research in Portland, OR, USA. From 1998-2002 he worked on his PhD degree at the University of Geneva, Switzerland with a research stay at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Since 2002 Henning has been working for the medical informatics service at the University hospitals of Geneva. Since 2007 he has been full professor at the HES-SO Valais and since 2011 he is responsible for the eHealth unit. Henning is coordinator of the Khresmoi project; initiator of the ImageCLEF benchmark has authored over 400 scientific papers and is in the editorial board of several journals.
Justin Zobel is Head of the University of Melbourne's Department of Computing & Information Systems. He received his PhD from the University of Melbourne and for many years was based at RMIT University, where he led the Search Engine group. His current research areas includes search, bioinformatics, and compression. He is an author of three texts on postgraduate study and research methods. He is an associate editor of the Information Retrieval Journal, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, and Information Processing & Management.