We are pleased to announce a forthcoming supplement to be published in Biomedical Informatics Insights, an open access peer reviewed journal published by Libertas Academica.

The supplement focuses on sentiment analysis in suicide notes.  The papers comprising the supplement were presented in November 2011 at a two day pre-conference workshop of American Medical Informatics Association.  

Contributors focussed on finding emotions in over 1300 suicide notes.  Each of the notes were read by three vested volunteers who assigned emotions such as abuse, anger, blame, fear, guilt or hopelessness.  A total of 26 international teams used various methods to identify these emotions.

The effort was led by John Pestian, PhD, as part of a larger collaboration between Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) and the US Department of Veterans’ Affairs.  The underlying goal was to promote collaboration within the natural language processing community that fosters new methods for natural language processing and novel approaches for clinical application.

This important supplement is projected to be published in January 2012.  All papers will be open access and free to access for all researchers around the world.

Visit this webpage to see the forthcoming papers for Biomedical Informatics Insights, and the other most recently published papers.

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