Introduction: selected extended articles from the 2nd International Workshop on Semantics-Powered Data Analytics (SEPDA 2017)

Zhe He; Cui Tao; Jiang Bian; Rui Zhang; Jingshan Huang

doi:10.1186/s12911-018-0624-8

Introduction: selected extended articles from the 2nd International Workshop on Semantics-Powered Data Analytics (SEPDA 2017)

BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018 Jul 23;18(Suppl 2):56. doi: 10.1186/s12911-018-0624-8.

Authors

Zhe He¹, Cui Tao², Jiang Bian³, Rui Zhang⁴, Jingshan Huang⁵

Affiliations

¹ School of Information, Florida State University, 142 Collegiate Loop, Tallahassee, 32306, FL, USA. zhe@fsu.edu.
² School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
³ Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
⁴ Institute for Health Informatics and College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
⁵ School of Computing, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, USA.

Abstract

In this editorial, we first summarize the 2nd International Workshop on Semantics-Powered Data Analytics (SEPDA 2017) held on November 13, 2017 in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A., and then briefly introduce 13 research articles included in this supplement issue, covering topics such as Semantic Integration, Deep Learning, Knowledge Base Construction, and Natural Language Processing.

Keywords: Data mining; Health data analytics; Natural language processing; Ontology.

Publication types

Editorial
Introductory Journal Article

MeSH terms

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Data Mining
Data Science*
Deep Learning
Humans
Natural Language Processing
Semantics*
United States