NCSR "Demokritos"
Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications
Software & Knowledge Engineering Laboratory

 

Call for Papers
for a special issue in the Journal

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

on

Summarization and Information Extraction from Medical Documents

 

Special Issue Guest Editors:

Dr. Constantine D. Spyropoulos
Dr. Vangelis Karkaletsis

Software and Knowledge Laboratory
Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications
National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos"

 

SCOPE
The problem of efficient access to the required information is faced by all professionals nowadays. This is due to the growing volume of information that is constantly flowing over the web and other media, in various formats and languages, making very difficult for someone to stay up-to-date with recent findings and advances.

This problem is also crucial for Doctors and researchers in medicine and biology, since they need quick and efficient access to up-to-date information according to their interests and needs. The fields of Information Extraction and Summarization may prove of uttermost importance as long as information keeps on flooding and the demand for up-to-date information for Doctors and Medicine researchers is growing.

The current special issue of AIM is looking for research or R&D work in the fields of summarisation and information extraction from documents in various formats, such as medical records (structured documents), web medical pages (semi-structured documents), or medical news and articles (unstructured documents).

Indicative but not restrictive topics are:

 

SCHEDULE

 

The Journal "Artificial Intelligence in Medicine", will publish the special issue on "Information Extraction and Summarisation from Medical Documents", during the year 2003.

 

REVIEWING PROCESS
Papers will be reviewed by at least two reviewers apart from the guest editors and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Acceptance will be based on originality, significance of findings, and relevance to the subject of the special issue. Please note that the usual reviewing procedures and editorial standards to the Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine will apply to the Special Issue manuscripts.

 

PAPER LENGTH
A manuscript should no exceed the limit of 10,000 words or 20 pages including tables, figures and the list of references. Manuscripts should be prepared according to the journal "submission guidelines" (see below).

 

ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION AND FURTHER INFORMATION
Manuscripts should be sent to:
Dr. Constantine D. Spyropoulos or Dr. Vangelis Karkaletsis NCSR
"DEMOKRITOS" Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications
15310 Aghia Paraskevi Attikis, Athens, Greece
e-mail: {costass, vangelis}@iit.demokritos.gr
Tel: +3010 6503196-7
Fax: +3010 6532175
 

GUIDE FOR AUTHORS
See the journal "submission guidelines" at http://authors.elsevier.com/