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# MEDEX-2010
Using Web Data in the Medical Domain

### Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Web Science and Information Exchange in the Medical Web, MedEx 2010

### Raleigh, NC, USA, April 26, 2010.

Edited by

### Kerstin Denecke 1) (Workshop Co-Chair)
Peter Dolog 2) (Workshop Co-Chair)
Pavel Smrz 3)
Jens Linge 4)
Wolfgang Nejdl 1), 5)
Avaré Stewart 1)

1) L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany
2) Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
3) Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
4) Joint Research Center, Italy
5) Knowledge Based System Department, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

## Table of Contents

- Preface

### Session 1

1. Determining Patient Similarity in Medical Social Networks 6-13
   Sebastian Klenk, Jürgen Dippon, Peter Fritz and Gunther Heidemann
2. Tag and Neighbour Based Recommender System for Medical Events 14-23
   Karunakar Reddy Bayyapu, Peter Dolog

### Session 2

3. Can ProMED-mail Bootstrap Blogs? Automatic Labeling of Victim-reporting Sentences 24-31
   Avaré Stewart, Kerstin Denecke
4. Linking Specialized Online Medical Discussions to Online Medical Literature 32-42
   Sam Stewart, Allen Finley, Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
5. The Importance of RSS in the Exchange of Medical Information 43-50
   Frankie Dolan, Nancy Shepherd
6. Animal Disease Event Recognition and Classification 51-61
   Svitlana Volkova, Doina Caragea, William Hsu, Swathi Bujuru

The whole proceedings can also be downloaded as a single file (pdf).

08-Apr-2010: submitted by Kerstin Denecke
08-Apr-2010: published on CEUR-WS.org