(apologies for duplicate posting)<br><br>We are pleased to announce the BioNLP Shared Task 2011.<br><br>The BioNLP Shared Task series represents a community-wide move in<br>bio-textmining toward fine-grained information extraction (IE). The<br>
first event, the BioNLP 2009 shared task (Dec. 2008-March 2009),<br>attracted wide attention, with 24 teams submitting final results. The<br>task setup and data have since served as the basis of numerous studies<br>and published event extraction systems and datasets. The BioNLP Shared<br>
Task 2011 (BioNLP-ST'11) is the follow-up event to the BioNLP 2009<br>shared task. While following the general outline and goals of the<br>previous task in defining biologically relevant extraction targets and<br>a linguistically motivated approach to event representation, the<br>
upcoming task will generalize and extend on the previous in three key<br>aspects: text type, domain, and targeted event types. Manually<br>annotated data where all annotations are bound to specific expressions<br>in text will be provided for training, development and evaluation of<br>
extraction methods, and tools for detailed evaluation of system<br>outputs will be made available. Participation to the task is open to<br>all interested parties.<br><br>Sample data for each task is available and registration for the task<br>
open since 14 Sep. 2010.<br><br>For details of the shared task, please see the shared task website<br><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/bionlpst">https://sites.google.com/site/bionlpst</a> .<br><br><br><Schedule> (Tentative)<br>
<br>Sample Data Release 14 Sep. 2010<br>Supporting Tasks<br> Training Data Release 24 Sep. 2010<br> Test Data Release 24 Oct. 2010<br> Result Submission 29 Oct. 2010<br> Result Notification 31 Oct. 2010<br>
Main Tasks<br> Training Data Release 1 Dec. 2010<br> Test Data Release 1 Mar. 2011<br> Result Submission 8 Mar. 2011<br> Results Notification 10 Mar. 2011<br>Manuscript Submission 8 Apr. 2011<br>
<br><br><Organization><br><br>Scientific Advisory Committee<br> * Jun'ichi Tsujii (Univ. Tokyo, NaCTeM) - Chair<br> * Sophia Ananiadou (NaCTeM, Manchester)<br> * Kevin Cohen (University of Colorado School of Medicine)<br>
* Claire Nedellec (INRA)<br> * Andrey Rzhetsky (Univ. Chicago)<br> * Bruno Sobral (Virginia Bioinformatics Inst.)<br> * Tapio Salakoski (Univ. Turku)<br> * Toshihisa Takagi (DBCLS)<br><br>Organizing Committee<br>
* Jin-Dong Kim (DBCLS) - Chair<br> * Sampo Pyysalo (Univ. Tokyo) - Chair<br> * Tomoko Ohta (Univ. Tokyo)<br> * Robert Bossy (INRA)<br> * Chunhong Mao (Virginia Bioinformatics Inst.)<br> * Dan Sullivan (Virginia Bioinformatics Inst.)<br>
* Rafal Rak (NaCTeM, Manchester)<br> * Nguyen Luu Thuy Ngan (Univ. Tokyo)<br><br>Contact<br> * Web: <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/bionlpst">https://sites.google.com/site/bionlpst</a><br> * Mail: <a href="mailto:bionlp-st@googlegroups.com">bionlp-st@googlegroups.com</a><br>
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