NLP for Medical Conversations
Call for Papers
We are pleased to announce the first workshop on NLP for Medical Conversations to be held at online on 10th July 2020 at ACL 2020. We invite the submission of papers on original and unpublished research in this upcoming area of interest.
About the workshop
The goal of this workshop is to bring together NLP researchers and medical practitioners, along with experts in machine learning, to discuss the current state-of-the-art approaches, to share their insights and discuss challenges. This is critical in order to bridge existing gaps between research and real-world product deployments, this will further shed light on future directions. “NLP for Medical Conversations” will be a one-day workshop including keynotes, spotlight talks, posters, and panel sessions. In keynote talks, senior technical leaders from industry and academia will share insights on the latest developments of the field. An open call for papers will be announced to encourage researchers and students to share their prospects and latest discoveries. The panel discussion will focus on the challenges, common framework for evaluating models across sites and future directions of conversational AI research in medical domain, bridging the gap in research and industrial practice, as well as audience-suggested topics.
Important Dates
- Paper submission deadline:
Monday, April 6th, 2020 11:59 PM ESTMonday, April 13th, 2020 11:59 PM EST - Review due:
Friday, April 24th, 2020Tuesday, April 28th, 2020 - Author response deadline: Friday, May 1st, 2020
- Acceptance notification: Wednesday, May 8th 2020
- Camera-ready deadline:
Sunday, May 3rd , 2020Tuesday, May 15th 2020 - ACL conference dates: July 5th - July 10th, 2020
- Workshop: 10th July 2020
Submission Instructions
Two types of submissions are invited: full papers and short papers.
- Full papers should not exceed eight (8) pages of text, plus unlimited references. Final versions of full papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account.
- Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, short papers will still be given up to five (5) content pages in the proceedings.
Please see https://acl2020.org/calls/papers/ for templates. Submission link: https://www.softconf.com/acl2020/nlpmc/
Only regular workshop papers would be part of the proceedings.
Extended Abstracts
Preliminary but interesting ideas that have not been published before may be submitted as extended abstracts. These should be up to 2 pages long and would benefit from additional exposure and discussion but are not ready for publication. Reviewing will be double-blind, so please do not include any self-identifying information in the submission. Selection of extended abstracts will be determined solely by the organizing committee.
Cross Submissions
In addition to previously unpublished work, we invite papers on relevant topics which have appeared in or submitted to alternative venues (such as other NLP or ML conferences). Accepted cross-submissions will be presented as posters, with an indication of the original venue. Selection of cross-submissions will be determined solely by the organizing committee.
Areas of interest
The active areas of research include, but are not limited to:
- Medical conversation summarization
- Entity recognition in Medical conversations
- Extraction of relations and events in Medical conversations
- Entity Linking with medical ontologies
- Topic Models for medical conversations
- Dissemination of resources for Medical conversation analysis
- Strategies to evaluate automated understanding of Medical conversations
- Resource sharing or dataset release
- Handling Multimodal clinical data
- Infrastructures for Clinical Decision Making
- Survey and Trends in Medical Conversational AI
- Language Understanding (NLU / SLU)
- Language Generation
- Medical Conversational AI Deployment
- Dialogue State Tracking
- Dialogue Data Collection / Datasets
- End-to-End Dialogue Modeling
- Slot-based Conversational AI
- Retrieval-based Conversational AI
- Generative Conversational AI
- Multimodal Dialogues
- Contextual Modeling
- Coreference Resolution
- Semantic Representation
- Dialogue Representation Learning
- Emergence of Communication
- Conversational Recommendations
- Patient modeling for Conversational AI
- Learning from user feedback
Author responsibility
We encourage submitting interesting ideas, these ideas can also be preliminary and unpublished work. The goal is to trigger discussion even when the idea is not ready for publication. Reviewing will be blind, so please refrain from including any names, affiliations or obvious statements in the paper, such as, “in our previous paper \cite{John:19}”.
Extended Abstracts
Preliminary but interesting ideas that have not been published before may be submitted as extended abstracts. These should be up to 2 pages long and would benefit from additional exposure and discussion but are not ready for publication. Reviewing will be double-blind, so please do not include any self-identifying information in the submission. Selection of extended abstracts will be determined solely by the organizing committee.
Cross Submissions
In addition to previously unpublished work, we invite papers on relevant topics which have appeared in or submitted to alternative venues (such as other NLP or ML conferences). Accepted cross-submissions will be presented as posters, with an indication of the original venue. Selection of cross-submissions will be determined solely by the organizing committee.