Call for Participation: #SMM4H'22, 7th Social Media Mining for Health Applications - Shared Task & Workshop at COLING 2022

Hybrid: Online / Gyeongju, Republic of Korea Workshop Date: October 17, 2022 Workshop and Shared task: https://healthlanguageprocessing.org/smm4h-2022/ ***Apologies if you received multiple copies of this announcement***

The Social Media Mining for Health Applications (#SMM4H) workshop serves as a venue for bringing together researchers interested in automatic methods for the collection, extraction, representation, analysis, and validation of social media data (e.g., Twitter, Reddit, Facebook) for health informatics. The 7th #SMM4H Workshop, co-located at COLING 2022 ( https://coling2022.org/index) will present a Keynote speaker, 15 invited oral presentations, and a poster session demonstrating the competing systems of the SMM4H'22 shared tasks. The detailed program and description of the shared tasks can be found online at https://healthlanguageprocessing.org/smm4h-2022/ https://healthlanguageprocessing.org

Keynote speaker: Raul Rodriguez-Esteban, Senior Principal Scientist at Roche Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland Abstract: Social media listening for pharmaceutical R&D Traditionally, social media listening (SML) in the pharmaceutical setting has been limited to marketing and communication purposes and performed with manual, qualitative methods. Pharmaceutical companies, with the encouragement of regulatory agencies, have started utilizing social media listening to integrate the patient perspective in the clinical development process to ensure relevant treatments and outcomes. Additionally, there is a growing acknowledgment that quantitative methods for SML (QSML) can provide new and more rigorous analyses that enhance the value of social media data to enable a patient-centric approach to understanding disease burden and influence drug discovery decisions at all stages. During this talk, I will present some examples of QSML supporting pharmaceutical R&D.

All questions should be emailed to Davy Weissenbacher ( davy.weissenbacher@cshs.org)