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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">BIONLP 2014<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">An ACL 2014 2-day Workshop associated with the SIGBIOMED special interest group.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Featuring a <b>special track on NLP approaches for assessment of clinical conditions</b> and a
<b>panel on shared tasks</b>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Baltimore, MD, June 26-27, 2014<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Workshop web site: http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=BioNLP_Workshop<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Submission deadline: Tuesday March 25, 2014, 11:59 PM Eastern US
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<p class="MsoNormal">Notification of acceptance: Tuesday April 15, 2014 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Camera-ready copy due from authors: Friday April 25, 2014<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Workshop: Thursday - Friday June 26 - 27, 2014<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>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Over the course of the past twelve years, the ACL BioNLP workshop associated with the
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<p class="MsoNormal">SIGBIOMED special interest group has established itself as the primary venue for
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<p class="MsoNormal">presenting foundational research in language processing for the biological and medical domains.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The workshop serves as both a venue for bringing together researchers in bio- and clinical NLP
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<p class="MsoNormal">and exposing these researchers to the mainstream ACL research, and a venue for informing
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<p class="MsoNormal">the mainstream ACL researchers about the fast growing and important domain.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The workshop will continue presenting work on a broad and interesting range of topics in NLP.
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<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<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"> -- 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"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SPECIAL TRACK<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The special track invites contributions from researchers working in NLP approaches
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<p class="MsoNormal">for the analysis of language samples to help in the assessment of clinical conditions.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Topics of relevance to the special track:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Development of linguistic resources in support of clinical applications research<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Identification of clinical markers using NLP techniques<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- NLP techniques for assisting the development of intervention practices<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Opinion papers related to pursuing this cross-disciplinary research<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Automated approaches for the identification of clinical conditions from language samples<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">KEYNOTE SPEAKER<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">TBD<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">PANEL ON SHARED TASKS<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">TBD<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Two types of submissions are invited: full papers and short papers.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Submissions are due by 11:59 PM EST on Tuesday March 25, 2014.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Full papers should not exceed eight (8) pages of text and one page
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<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
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<p class="MsoNormal">work involving biomedicine and language technology, whether or not
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<p class="MsoNormal">yielding high performance at the moment. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We particularly welcome reports on mature results, strong performance,
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<p class="MsoNormal">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 plus at most 2 pages for references.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Accepted short papers will be published in a separate section of the workshop proceedings.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Appropriate short paper topics include preliminary results, application notes, descriptions of work in progress, etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Electronic Submission:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Submission must be electronic and in PDF format, using the Softconf submission software at
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.softconf.com/acl2014/BioNLP">https://www.softconf.com/acl2014/BioNLP</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL 2014 proceedings.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please see the style files and formatting <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">instructions at <a href="http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/CallforPapers.htm">
http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/CallforPapers.htm</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<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
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<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
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<p class="MsoNormal">the BioNLP 2014 workshop if they are or will be concurrently
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<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"> * 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, Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> * Jun-ichi Tsujii, Microsoft Research Asia<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Special track organizers:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Thamar Solorio, The University of Alabama at Birmingham <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Yang Liu, The University of Texas at Dallas<o:p></o:p></p>
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