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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>BIONLP 2012<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A NAACL-HLT 2012 Workshop<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Montreal, Canada, June 8, 2012<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Workshop submissions due: Sunday Mar 25, 2012, 11:59 PM Eastern US<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Workshop web site: TBA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Paper submission: <a href="https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/BIONLP2012/">https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/BIONLP2012/</a> <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>Over the course of the past ten years, the ACL BioNLP workshop associated <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>with the SIGBIOMED special interest group has established itself as the primary <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>venue for presenting foundational research in language processing for the <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>biological and medical domains. The workshop serves as both a venue for bringing <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>together researchers in bio- and clinical NLP and exposing these researchers <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>to the mainstream ACL research, and a venue for informing the mainstream <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ACL researchers about the fast growing and important domain. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The workshop will continue presenting work on a broad and interesting <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>range of topics in NLP. Along with accepting submissions this year <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>on any topic of current interest in the field, we will encourage <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>submissions on hybrid approaches to biomedical language processing. <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> - Entity identification and normalization 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> -- 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> - Hybrid approaches to biomedical language processing<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> - Translation of basic linguistic research to clinical care<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: Sunday Mar 25, 2012, 11:59 PM Eastern US <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Notification of acceptance: Monday Apr 23, 2012 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Camera-ready copy due from authors: Friday May 4, 2012 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Workshop: Friday June 8, 2012<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>Wendy Chapman, University of California, San Diego<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 short papers. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Submissions are due by 11:59 PM EST on Sunday Mar 25, 2012. <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>Short papers should not exceed four (4) pages including references. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Accepted short papers will be published in a separate section of the <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>workshop proceedings. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Appropriate short paper 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 details. <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 conference website:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php<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 2012 workshop if they are or will be concurrently <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>submitted to another meeting or publication. <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, Microsoft Research Asia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> * Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh, UK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>