Curative Power of Medical Data

Dear Colleagues,

In an era where massive amounts of medical data are available, researchers working in biological, biomedical, and clinical domains have increasingly started to require the help of language engineers to process large quantities of biomedical and molecular biology literature (such as PubMed), patient data, or health records. Linking the contents of these documents to each other, as well as to specialized ontologies, could enable access to, and discovery of, structured clinical information and foster a major leap in natural language processing and health research.

MEDA-2018 aims to gather innovative approaches for the exploitation of biomedical data using semantic web technologies and linked data by bringing together practitioners, researchers, and scholars to share examples, use cases, theories and analysis of biomedical data. The main objective of this second edition workshop is to consolidate an internationally appreciated forum for scientific research in BioMed, with emphasis on crowdsourcing, semantic web, knowledge integration and data linking.

This Special Issue will contain the expanded versions of selected papers presented at the MEDA-2018 workshop (https://profs.info.uaic.ro/~meda/) of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2018) held in Fort Worth, Texas, USA, 3–6 June, 2018.

Dr. Diana Trandabat
Dr. Daniela Gîfu
Dr. Kevin Cohen
Dr. Jingbo Xia
Guest Editors

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