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<p class=MsoNormal>BIONLP 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>An ACL 2010 Workshop<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Uppsala, Sweden, July 15<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Workshop submissions due: Friday Apr 9, 2010, 11:59 PM
Eastern US<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Workshop web site:
http://compbio.uchsc.edu/BioNLP2010/index.shtml<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>WORKSHOP OVERVIEW AND SCOPE<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>---------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Continuing a successful series of annual BioNLP workshops at
ACL<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>and NAACL starting in 2002, and in accordance with the ACL
SIGBIOMED<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>(www.sigbiomed.org) tradition of presenting work on a broad
range of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>topics, we invite submissions on any topic of current
interest in<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>the field of Biomedical Natural Language Processing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Along with accepting submissions this year on any topic of
current<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>interest in the field, we will encourage submissions on
practical<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>applications of BioNLP.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We especially encourage submissions on:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Entity identification and normalization<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>for a broad range of semantic categories<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Species-independent gene normalization<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Extraction of complex relations<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Discourse analysis<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Anaphora resolution<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Coreference resolution<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Text mining<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Summarization<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>-- Summarization/translation of
clinical data for patients<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Question answering<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Resources and novel strategies for system testing and
evaluation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>----------------------------<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Submission deadline: Friday Apr 9, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Notification of acceptance: Monday May 10, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Camera-ready copy due from authors: Friday May 21, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Workshop: Thursday, Jul 15, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>KEYNOTE SPEAKER<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>----------------<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Dr. John Wilbur, NCBI/NLM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Second speaker TBA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>-----------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Two types of submissions are invited: full papers and poster
abstracts.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Submissions are due by 11:59 PM EST on Friday Apr 9, 2010.
Submit<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>your paper or abstract via the ACL website:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>https://www.softconf.com/acl2010/BioNLP.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Full papers should not exceed eight (8) pages of text and
one page<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>of references. These are intended to be reports of original
research.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>BioNLP aims to be the forum for interesting, innovative, and
promising<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>work involving biomedicine and language technology, whether
or not<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>yielding high performance at the moment.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>This by no means precludes our interest in and preference
for mature<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>results, strong performance, and thorough evaluation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Both types of research and combinations thereof are
encouraged.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Poster abstracts should not exceed two (2) pages. Accepted
abstracts<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>will be published in a separate section of the workshop
proceedings.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Appropriate poster topics include preliminary results,
application<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>notes, descriptions of work in progress, etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Submissions must be electronic and in PDF format, and should
follow<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>the two-column format of ACL proceedings. Please see the
conference<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>website for detailed typesetting specifications.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Authors are strongly encouraged to use the style files and
formatting<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>instructions available on the ACL conference website:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://acl2010.org/authors.html<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Submissions need to be anonymous.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Authors who cannot submit a PDF file electronically should
contact<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>the workshop organizers well in advance of the submission
deadline.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Dual submission policy: note that papers may not be
submitted to<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>the BioNLP 2010 workshop if they are or will be concurrently<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>submitted to another meeting or publication and that other<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>meeting or publication prohibits dual submissions. If your
paper<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>is also submitted to ISMB or AMIA, you should expect it to
be<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>rejected by ISMB and AMIA. If your paper is or will be
concurrently<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>under consideration by another meeting or publication,
notify us of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>that fact in a footnote on the first page. Do not dual-submit
your<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>BioNLP 2010 workshop paper to ISMB or AMIA.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>ACL MENTORING SERVICE<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>--------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>ACL is providing a mentoring (coaching) service for authors
from<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>regions of the world where English is less emphasized as a
language<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>of scientific exchange. Many authors from these regions,
although<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>able to read the scientific literature in English, have
little or<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>no experience in writing papers in English for conferences
such as<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>the ACL meetings. The service will be arranged as follows. A
set of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>potential mentors will be identified by Mentoring Service
Chairs Bjorn<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Gambck (SICS, Sweden and NTNU, Norway) and Diana McCarthy
(Lexical<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Computing Ltd., UK), who will organize this service for ACL
2010. If<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>you would like to take advantage of the service for a
submission to<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>this workshop, please upload your paper in PDF format using
the paper<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>submission software for the mentoring service available at:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>https://www.softconf.com/acl2010/acl2010mentor/<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The deadline for the mentoring service is six weeks before
the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>workshop submission deadline. An appropriate mentor will be
assigned<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>to your paper and the mentor will get back to you no later
than two<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>weeks before the submission deadline.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Please note that this service is for the benefit of the
authors as<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>described above. It is not a general mentoring service for
authors to<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>improve the technical content of their papers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Questions about the mentoring service should be referred to<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>mentoring@acl2010.org.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, University of Colorado School of
Medicine<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Dina Demner-Fushman, US National Library of Medicine<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> and University of Manchester, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* John Pestian, Computational Medicine Center, Cincinnati
Children's<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> Hospital and Medical Center<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Jun-ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> and University of Manchester, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
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