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==============================<u></u>============================<br>BioNLP Shared Task 2013 -- Training Data Release and First call for Participation<br>==============================<u></u>==============================<br>
<br>We are pleased to announce the start of the BioNLP Shared Task, the information extraction task for biology. It is open to any interested participants.<br><br><Data><br>We are beginning the release of training and development data sets of BioNLP shared task 2013. They are publicly available on the task Web pages of the BioNLP Shared Task 2013 website:<br>
<a href="http://2013.bionlp-st.org/tasks" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://2013.bionlp-st.org/<u></u>tasks</a><br><br>Release of data sets for some tasks are being delayed, but should be completed within a couple of days, which will be notified to the<br>
registered people.<br>Supporting resources will be released in a couple of days.<br><br><Registration><br>Registration for participation to the BioNLP Shared Task is required. Registration is open at the BioNLP Shared Task 2013 website:<br>
<a href="http://2013.bionlp-st.org/participation" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://2013.bionlp-st.org/<u></u>participation</a><br><br>Please register to <a href="http://bionlp-st.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">bionlp-st.org</a> list for regular email update by sending an e-mail to <a href="mailto:majordomo@bionlp-st.org" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">majordomo@bionlp-st.org</a> with 'subscribe bionlp-st' in<br>
the body of the message. Registered people will be updated with frequent news about the shared task, e.g. release of supporting tools, resources, revisions, or other news.<br><br><Workshop><br>The BioNLP ST workshop will be co-hosted with the ACL/HLT 2013 BioNLP workshop, to be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, August 8-9<br>
Participants will be invited to submit manuscripts describing their systems to the BioNLP ST workshop.<br><br><Context><br>The BioNLP Shared Task series represents a community-wide trend in text-mining for biology toward fine-grained information extraction<br>
(IE). The two previous events, the BioNLP 2009 and 2011 shared task attracted wide attention, with numerous teams submitting final results. The task setup and data have since served as the basis of numerous studies and published event extraction systems and datasets.<br>
The BioNLP Shared Task 2013 (BioNLP-ST'13) follows the general outline and goals of the previous tasks. It identifies biologically relevant extraction targets and proposes a linguistically motivated approach to event representation. BioNLP-ST'13 tasks also covers many new hot topics in the biology domain that are close to biologist needs.<br>
<br>As in previous editions, manually annotated data are provided for training, development and evaluation of the participating extraction methods.<br><br>The six BioNLP-ST 2013 event extraction tasks are<br><br>- [GE] Genia Event Extraction for NFkB knowledge base construction<br>
- [CG] Cancer Genetics<br>- [PC] Pathway Curation<br>- [GRO] Corpus Annotation with Gene Regulation Ontology<br>- [RNB] Gene Regulation Network in Bacteria<br>- [BB] Microorganism Biotope (semantic annotation by an ontology)<br>
<br><br>For further information, please see the shared task website<br><a href="http://2013.bionlp-st.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://2013.bionlp-st.org/</a><br><br><br><Schedule><br>Training Data Release 12:00 IDLW, 17 Jan. 2013<br>
Test Data Release 22 Mar. 2013<br>Result Submission 29 Mar. 2013<br>BioNLP'11 Workshop 8-9 Aug. 2013<br><br><Committees><br><br>Scientific Advisory Board<br><br>Jun'ichi Tsujii (Microsoft) - Chair<br>Philippe Bessières (INRA)<br>
Sung-Pil Choi (KISTI)<br>Kevin Cohen (Univ. Colorado)<br>Yuji Kohara (DBCLS)<br>Tapio Salakoski (Univ. Turku)<br>Pierre Zweigenbaum (CNRS)<br><br>Organizing Committee<br><br>Claire Nédellec (INRA) - Organizing Chair<br>Sophia Ananiadou (NaCTeM, Univ. Manchester)<br>
Robert Bossy (INRA) - Task BB and RBB chair<br>Julien Jourde (INRA)<br>Jin-Dong Kim (DBCLS) - Task GE chair<br>Jung-jae Kim (NTU, Singapore) - Task GRO chair<br>Tomoko Ohta (NaCTeM, Univ. Manchester) - Task PC chair<br>Sampo Pyysalo (NaCTeM, Univ. Manchester) - Task CG chair<br>
Pontus Stenetorp (Univ. Tokyo)<br>Yue Wang (DBCLS)<br><br>Programme Committee<br><br>Pierre Zweigenbaum, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) - PC Chair<br>Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester (NaCTeM)<br>
Sabine Bergler, Concordia University<br>Robert Bossy, National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)<br>Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, University of Colorado<br>Berry de Bruijn, National Research Council (NRC)<br>Dina Demner-Fushman, National Library of Medicine (NLM)<br>
Jörg Hakenberg, Arizona State University<br>Jin-Dong Kim, Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS)<br>Jung-Jae Kim, Nanyang Technological University<br>Martin Krallinger, National Biotechnology Center (CNB)<br>Roser Morante, University of Antwerp<br>
Claire Nédellec, National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)<br>Tomoko Ohta, University of Manchester (NaCTeM)<br>Sampo Pyysalo, University of Manchester (NaCTeM)<br>Rafal Rak, University of Manchester (NaCTeM)<br>
Yvan Saeys, Ghent University<br>Rune Sætre, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)<br>Özlem Uzuner, State University of New York<br>Andreas Vlachos (Univ. of Cambridge)<br><br>(more members TBA)<br><br><br>
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<br>BioNLP Shared Task 2013 Organizers</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div>