SEPDA 2016 - 1st International Workshop on Semantics-Powered Data Analytics (SEPDA 2016)

1st International Workshop on Semantics-Powered Data Analytics (SEPDA 2016)
http://semantics-powered.org/
in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2016) to be held in Shenzhen, China on December 15, 2016
Biomedical ontologies and controlled terminologies provide structured domain knowledge to a variety of health information systems. The rich thesaurus with concepts linked by semantic relationships has been widely used in natural language processing, data mining, machine learning, semantic annotation, and automated reasoning. The dramatically increasing amount of health-related data poses unprecedented opportunities for mining previously unknown knowledge with semantics-powered data analytics methods. However, due to the heterogeneity of different data sources, it is a challenging problem to exploit multiple sources to solve real-world problems such as designing cost-effective treatment plan for patients, drug repurposing, and clinical phenotyping. The goal of this workshop is to bring people in the field of knowledge representation, knowledge management, and health data analytics to discuss innovative semantic methods, applications, and data analytics to address problems in healthcare, biomedicine, public health, and clinical research with biomedical, clinical, behavioral, and social web data.
We are inviting original research submissions (8 pages) as well as work-in-progress (4 pages). All the accepted papers will be published in the main conference proceedings of BIBM 2016. Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of the paper to the special issue “Semantics-Powered Healthcare Engineering and Data Analytics” of the Journal of Healthcare Engineering www.hindawi.com/journals/jhe/si/461480/cfp) (Impact Factor: 0.925; Indexed in: MEDLINE, PubMed, and SCI-Expanded).
Research Topics
Topics of interest include but not limited to:
Ontologies and Controlled Terminologies
-Ontology development and enrichment
-Quality assurance of ontologies and controlled terminologies
-Semantic harmonization and ontology alignment
-Knowledge representation and reasoning
Semantics-based Data Analytics
-Ontology-based literature mining
-Ontology-based analysis on biomedical, clinical, or social web data
-Named entity recognition and relation extraction on biomedical, clinical, or social web data
-Data mining or machine learning on biomedical, clinical or social web data
-Semantic annotation on biomedical, clinical or social web data
Data Integration
-Linked open data
-Novel approaches for data integration of heterogeneous data sources
-Large scale data integration
Application
-Novel tools and ontologies for data interpretation and visualization
-Drug repurposing using semantic web technologies
-Clinical trial generalizability assessment using semantic web technologies
-Algorithmic phenotyping and cohort identification using ontologies
-Improving the literacy of health information consumers
Important Dates
Oct 30, 2016: Due date for full workshop paper submissions/Due date for work-in-progress paper submissions
Nov 10, 2016: Notification of paper acceptance to authors
Nov 20, 2016: Camera-ready of accepted papers
Dec 15, 2016: SEPDA 2016 Workshop
Submission
Please submit a full-length paper (up to 8 page IEEE 2-column format) or a work-in-progress paper (up to 4 page IEEE 2-column format) through the online submission system (you can download the format instruction here). Electronic submissions (in PDF or Postscript format) are required.
Submission site: Submit a New Paper (or through SEPDA 2016 website http://semantics-powered.org/)
Contact
Please email Workshop co-chair, Dr. Zhe He (Zhe.He-AT-cci.fsu.edu)