Apologies for cross-postings.<br><br>BIONLP 2010<br><br>An ACL 2010 Workshop<br>Uppsala, Sweden, July 15<br>Workshop submissions due: Friday Apr 9, 2010, 11:59 PM Eastern US<br>Workshop web site: <a href="http://compbio.uchsc.edu/BioNLP2010/index.shtml">http://compbio.uchsc.edu/BioNLP2010/index.shtml</a><br>
<br>WORKSHOP OVERVIEW AND SCOPE<br>---------------------------------------------------<br>Continuing a successful series of annual BioNLP workshops at ACL <br>and NAACL starting in 2002, and in accordance with the ACL SIGBIOMED<br>
(<a href="http://www.sigbiomed.org">www.sigbiomed.org</a>) tradition of presenting work on a broad range of <br>topics, we invite submissions on any topic of current interest in <br>the field of Biomedical Natural Language Processing.<br>
<br>Along with accepting submissions this year on any topic of current <br>interest in the field, we will encourage submissions on practical <br>applications of BioNLP. <br> <br>We especially encourage submissions on:<br>
<br> - Entity identification and normalization <br> for a broad range of semantic categories <br> - Species-independent gene normalization<br> - Extraction of complex relations<br> - Discourse analysis<br> - Anaphora resolution<br>
- Coreference resolution<br> - Text mining<br> - Summarization<br> -- Summarization/translation of clinical data for patients<br> - Question answering<br> - Resources and novel strategies for system testing and evaluation<br>
<br>IMPORTANT DATES<br>----------------------------<br>Submission deadline: Friday Apr 9, 2010 <br>Notification of acceptance: Monday May 10, 2010 <br>Camera-ready copy due from authors: Friday May 21, 2010 <br>Workshop: Thursday, Jul 15, 2010<br>
<br>KEYNOTE SPEAKER<br>----------------<br>Dr. John Wilbur, NCBI/NLM<br>Second speaker TBA<br><br>SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS<br>-----------------------------------------<br>Two types of submissions are invited: full papers and poster abstracts. <br>
Submissions are due by 11:59 PM EST on Friday Apr 9, 2010. Submit <br>your paper or abstract via the ACL website: <br><br><a href="https://www.softconf.com/acl2010/BioNLP">https://www.softconf.com/acl2010/BioNLP</a>. <br>
<br>Full papers should not exceed eight (8) pages of text and one page <br>of references. These are intended to be reports of original research.<br>BioNLP aims to be the forum for interesting, innovative, and promising <br>
work involving biomedicine and language technology, whether or not <br>yielding high performance at the moment. <br>This by no means precludes our interest in and preference for mature <br>results, strong performance, and thorough evaluation. <br>
Both types of research and combinations thereof are encouraged.<br><br>Poster abstracts should not exceed two (2) pages. Accepted abstracts <br>will be published in a separate section of the workshop proceedings. <br>Appropriate poster topics include preliminary results, application <br>
notes, descriptions of work in progress, etc.<br><br>Submissions must be electronic and in PDF format, and should follow <br>the two-column format of ACL proceedings. Please see the conference <br>website for detailed typesetting specifications. <br>
Authors are strongly encouraged to use the style files and formatting <br>instructions available on the ACL conference website:<br><br><a href="http://acl2010.org/authors.html">http://acl2010.org/authors.html</a><br><br>
Submissions need to be anonymous. <br>
Authors who cannot submit a PDF file electronically should contact <br>the workshop organizers well in advance of the submission deadline.<br><br>Dual submission policy: note that papers may not be submitted to <br>the BioNLP 2010 workshop if they are or will be concurrently <br>
submitted to another meeting or publication and that other <br>meeting or publication prohibits dual submissions. If your paper <br>is also submitted to ISMB or AMIA, you should expect it to be <br>rejected by ISMB and AMIA. If your paper is or will be concurrently <br>
under consideration by another meeting or publication, notify us of <br>that fact in a footnote on the first page. Do not dual-submit your <br>BioNLP 2010 workshop paper to ISMB or AMIA.<br><br>ACL MENTORING SERVICE<br>--------------------------------------<br>
ACL is providing a mentoring (coaching) service for authors from <br>regions of the world where English is less emphasized as a language <br>of scientific exchange. Many authors from these regions, although <br>able to read the scientific literature in English, have little or <br>
no experience in writing papers in English for conferences such as <br>the ACL meetings. The service will be arranged as follows. A set of <br>potential mentors will be identified by Mentoring Service Chairs Bjorn <br>Gambck (SICS, Sweden and NTNU, Norway) and Diana McCarthy (Lexical <br>
Computing Ltd., UK), who will organize this service for ACL 2010. If <br>you would like to take advantage of the service for a submission to <br>this workshop, please upload your paper in PDF format using the paper <br>submission software for the mentoring service available at:<br>
<br> <a href="https://www.softconf.com/acl2010/acl2010mentor/">https://www.softconf.com/acl2010/acl2010mentor/</a><br><br>The deadline for the mentoring service is six weeks before the <br>workshop submission deadline. An appropriate mentor will be assigned <br>
to your paper and the mentor will get back to you no later than two <br>weeks before the submission deadline.<br> <br>Please note that this service is for the benefit of the authors as <br>described above. It is not a general mentoring service for authors to <br>
improve the technical content of their papers.<br><br>Questions about the mentoring service should be referred to <br><a href="mailto:mentoring@acl2010.org">mentoring@acl2010.org</a>.<br><br><br> * Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, University of Colorado School of Medicine<br>
* Dina Demner-Fushman, US National Library of Medicine<br> * Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining<br> and University of Manchester, UK<br> * John Pestian, Computational Medicine Center, Cincinnati Children's<br>
Hospital and Medical Center<br> * Jun-ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan<br> and University of Manchester, UK<br> * Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh, UK<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>K. B. Cohen<br>Biomedical Text Mining Group Lead, Center for Computational Pharmacology<br>
and<br>Lead Artificial Intelligence Engineer, The MITRE Corporation, Human Language Technology Division<br>303-916-2417 (cell) 303-377-9194 (home)<br><a href="http://compbio.uchsc.edu/Hunter_lab/Cohen">http://compbio.uchsc.edu/Hunter_lab/Cohen</a><br>
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