<div class="gmail_quote"><br><p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Call
for participation DDIExtraction 2013</font></span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:11pt"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Extraction of Drug-Drug Interactions
from biomedical texts (DDIExtraction 2013)</font></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/semeval-2013/task9/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:navy">http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/semeval-2013/task9/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/ddiextraction_semeval" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:navy">http://groups.google.com/group/ddiextraction_semeval</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="color:#222222">Following the success of the DDIExtraction 2011
task (</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://labda.inf.uc3m.es/DDIExtraction2011/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:navy">http://labda.inf.uc3m.es/DDIExtraction2011/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">), we invite your
participation in the second DDIExtraction task, which will held at Semeval
2013, co-located with SEM-2013 and NAACL-2013 conferences in Atlanta.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(41,39,42);font-size:11pt">The DDIExtraction 2013 task concerns the
recognition of drugs and extraction of drug-drug interactions that appear in
biomedical literature. The definition of drug-drug interaction (DDI) is broadly
described as a change in the effects of one drug by the presence of another
drug (e.g. </span><em style="color:rgb(41,39,42);font-size:11pt">Acetazolamide reduces
urinary excretion of quinidine and may enhance its effect</em><span style="color:rgb(41,39,42);font-size:11pt">.). The
detection of DDIs is an important research area in patient safety since these
interactions can become very dangerous and increase health care costs.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><span style="color:rgb(41,39,42);font-size:11pt">The goal of DDIExtraction 2013 is to provide
a common framework for evaluation of information extraction techniques applied
to the recognition of pharmacological substances and detection of drug-drug
interactions from biomedical texts.</span><span style="color:rgb(41,39,42);font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="color:rgb(41,39,42);font-size:11pt">The
DDIExtraction 2011 task concentrated efforts on the novel aspects of the DDI
extraction task, the drug recognition was assumed and the annotations for drugs
were provided to the participants. This new DDIExtraction 2013 task will pursue
the extraction of drug interactions as well as the recognition of drug names.
Additionally, while the DDIExtraction 2011 shared task relied on the DDI corpus
composed by texts describing DDIs from the DrugBank database, the
DDIExtraction2013 also integrates MedLine abstracts in order to deal with
different type of texts and language styles.</span></font></p>
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<span style="color:#222222">DDIExtraction2013 Shared Task is designed to
address the extraction of DDIs as a whole, but divided into two subtasks to
allow separate evaluation of the performance for different aspects of the
problem. </span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222">This
shared task includes two challenges:</span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11pt;text-indent:0cm"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">TASK 9.1: Recognition and classification of drug names.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.399999618530273px">TASK 9.2: Extraction of drug-drug interactions. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-indent:0cm">The extraction of drug-drug interactions is a
specific relation extraction task in biomedical literature. This task could be
very appealing to groups studying PPI (protein-protein interaction) extraction
because they could adapt their systems to extract drug-drug interactions.</span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.399999618530273px"><b><br>
</b></span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.399999618530273px"><b>Data</b></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Training dataset
can be found from:
<a href="http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/semeval-2013/task9/index.php?id=data" target="_blank">http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/semeval-2013/task9/index.php?id=data</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#222222">Important dates</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:#222222">Nov 15: Training dataset available for participants</span><br>
<span style="color:#222222">Feb 15: </span><span style="color:#403d42">Registration
Deadline [for Task Participants]</span><br>
<span style="color:#222222">Mar 1: Start of evaluation period</span><br>
<span style="color:#222222">Mar 15: End of evaluation period (23:59, UTC-11)</span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Apr 9: </span><em><span style="font-style:normal">Paper submission deadline</span></em><br>
<span style="color:#222222">May 4: Camera ready </span><br>
<br><br><b style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:#222222">Organizers</span></b></font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">
<span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Isabel
Segura-Bedmar, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain</font></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Paloma Martínez,
University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain</font></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">María Herrero,
University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt">Research Network
MAVIR </span><span lang="ES" style="font-size:11pt"><a href="http://www.mavir.net/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:navy">http://www.mavir.net/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt">(S2009/TIC-1542)</span></font></p>
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