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Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research - Call for Papers: Health Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies have received significant attention in the medical domain and have demonstrated numerous successful uses in healthcare applications. Recently, deep learning models, especially transformer-based architectures, have become state-of-the-art for many clinical NLP tasks. There is an increasing interest in applying NLP methods to fill the gap of using clinical narratives in healthcare applications. The goal of this special issue is to gather original research works contributing to NLP over health data such as clinical notes, social media, and biomedical literature. This special issue welcomes original research work from the research community contributing to health NLP methods, tools, and applications. 

The list of possible topics includes, but is not limited to: 

  • NLP methods: Any original methodological research, including but not limited to following areas: language models and learning architectures (e.g., transformers), deep learning, named entity recognition, word sense disambiguation, relation extraction, syntactic parsing, semantic role labeling, topic modeling, discourse analysis, question answering, and other topics related to health NLP. 
  • NLP software tools: Any general or specific NLP tools for health data such as clinical notes, social media, biomedical literature etc. 
  • NLP applications: Uses of NLP for clinical research or operation, examples including pharmacovigilance, clinical decision support, phenotyping, predictive modeling, risk prediction, social media mining etc.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please refer to the given link for submission guidelines: https://www.springer.com/journal/41666/submission-guidelines (this opens in a new tab)

IMPORTANT DATES 

  • Deadline for submissions: October 31st, 2022
  • First-round review decisions: December 1st, 2022
  • Deadline for revision submissions: January 1st, 2023
  • Notification of final decisions: March 1st, 2023

Please submit your paper by October 31st, 2022 through SNAPP: https://submission.nature.com/new-submission/41666/3 (this opens in a new tab)

If you are a new user, please create a login and password. During submission, do not forget to select that your paper is for the special issue entitled “Health Natural Language Processing.”

Special Issue Editors:

Yonghui Wu, PhD
Assistant Professor, College of Medicine, Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, US.
Email: Yonghui.wu@ufl.edu (this opens in a new tab)

Hua Xu, PhD,
Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, US. 
Email: Hua.Xu@uth.tmc.edu (this opens in a new tab)


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