[Corpora-List] CfP: LREC workshop-- Building and evaluating resources for biomedical text mining

[Sophia Ananiadou]

CALL FOR PAPERS

LREC 2008 Workshop

 

Building and evaluating resources for biomedical text mining

 

http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ 

 

26 May 2008, Palais des Congrès Mansour Eddahbi, Marrakech, Morocco

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We invite papers reporting on biomedical resources specifically used to
facilitate biomedical text mining and the process of designing,
building, updating, delivering, evaluating and disseminating them. A
focus of the workshop is on lexical and knowledge repositories (e.g.
controlled vocabularies, terminologies, ontologies, factual databases)
and annotated corpora. Another focus is on design guidelines, standards
for building resources, storage and exchange format, interoperability of
resources and last, on exploring new directions for their dissemination.

 

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

 

-           Building biomedical resources: controlled vocabularies,
terminologies, ontologies, corpora

-           Guidelines and annotation schemas, challenges,
interoperability

-           Building task-specific resources

-           Reengineering existing biomedical or general language
resources 

-           Augmentation of resources with biomedical features 

-           Update and evolution of resources

-           Lightly annotated and noisy resources

-           Tools for exploration of resources

-           Data exchange formats

-          Standards for building resources

-           Documenting and disseminating resources

-           Evaluation of resources

 

Organisers:

*Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining, University of
Manchester,UK

*Monica Monachini, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy

*Goran Nenadic, University of Manchester, UK

*Jian Su, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

 

Important Dates:

 

February 15, 2008     Paper submissions due

March 20, 2008         Paper notification of acceptance

April 4, 2008             Camera-ready papers due

May 26, 2008            Workshop 

 

 

Submissions:

Papers must describe original, completed or in progress, and unpublished
work.  Each submission will be reviewed by three program committee
members.

Accepted papers will be given eight pages in the workshop proceedings,
and may be presented either as a poster or an oral presentation.  

Online submission for papers: your paper (up to 8 pages) should be
formatted according to the stylesheet provided at LREC 2008. 

 

Please send your electronic submissions in PDF format to
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=berbmtm08  

 

Paper review will be double blind, so papers should not include authors'
names and affiliations. Self-references are to be avoided-instead of "As
we showed in Smith et al. 1999...", say "As Smith et al. 1999
showed....".

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. 

 

Program committee members: 

 

Olivier Bodenreider, NLM, USA

Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Germany

Nicoletta Calzolari, CNR, Italy

Kevin B. Cohen, MITRE, USA  

Nigel Collier, National Institute for Informatics, Japan 

Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Beatrice Daille, University of Nantes, France

Udo Hahn, Jena University, Germany 

Marti Hearst, Berkeley, USA   

Martin Krallinger, Protein Design group, Spain

Ewan Klein, Edinburgh University, UK

Mark Liberman, CIS, UPenn, USA

Liu, Hong Fang, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA 

John McNaught,   University of Manchester, UK 

Simonetta Montemagni, CNR, Italy

Claire Nedellec, CNRS, France

Adeline Nazarenko, LIPN, Paris 13, France

John Pestian, Computational Medicine Center, Cincinnati Children's, USA

Dietrich Rebholz, EMBL-EBI, UK

Patrick Ruch, University Hospital of Geneva and Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology

Hagit Shatkay, Queen's University, USA

Stefan Schulz, Freiburg University Hospital, Germany 

Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, University of Manchester, UK

Jun-ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan and University of
Manchester, UK

Karin Verspoor, Los Alamos National Labs, USA

Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI-CNRS, France

 

Workshop contact person:

Sophia.Ananiadou at manchester.ac.uk 

National Centre for Text Mining, Computer Science, University of
Manchester 

 

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Dr Sophia Ananiadou, Reader in Text Mining,

School of Computer Science,

Director,  National Centre for Text Mining, www.nactem.ac.uk
<http://www.nactem.ac.uk>  

Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, www.mib.ac.uk
<http://www.mib.ac.uk>  

131 Princess St, Manchester, M1 7DN

Email: Sophia.Ananiadou at manchester.ac.uk
<mailto:Sophia.Ananiadou at manchester.ac.uk> 

Tel: +44 161 306 3092 Fax:+44 161 306 8918

http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/sophia.ananiadou/
<http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/sophia.ananiadou/> 

 

 

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