<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><span>Second</span> <span>call</span> for Papers: Journal of Biomedical Informatics <span><span class="">Special</span></span> <span><span class="">Issue</span></span> on Mining the <span class="">Pharmacovigilance</span> Literature<br>
Guest Editors: Isabel Segura-Bedmar, Paloma Martínez<br>Computer Science Department<br>Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain<br><br><br><br>We are pleased to announce a <span><span class="">Special</span></span> <span><span class="">Issue</span></span> of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics on Mining the <span class="">Pharmacovigilance</span> Literature. For detailed information, please see <a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-biomedical-informatics/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-mining-the-pharmacovigilance-literature/" target="_blank">http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-biomedical-informatics/<span>call</span>-for-papers/<span>special</span>-<span><span class="">issue</span></span>-on-mining-the-<span class="">pharmacovigilance</span>-literature/</a>.<br>
<br><span class="">Pharmacovigilance</span>
is formally defined by WHO as ‘‘the science and activities related to
the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse
effects or any other drug-related problems’’. Text Mining applied to the
<span class="">pharmacovigilance</span> literature can be of great
benefit in the pharmaceutical industry, allowing identification and
extraction of relevant information, and providing an interesting way to
reduce the time spent by healthcare professionals and researchers who
are trying to stay current by reviewing the literature.<br><br>We encourage you to submit your articles for this <span><span class="">special</span></span> <span><span class="">issue</span></span> on automatic extraction of relationships between biomedical entities relevant to the <span class="">Pharmacovigilance</span>
field. More specifically, we are interested in papers that present new
and novel approaches for the extraction of drug–drug interactions (DDI)
and drug side-effects relationships from biomedical texts.<br><br>We particularly welcome submissions that use the DDI corpus (<a href="http://labda.inf.uc3m.es/ddicorpus" target="_blank">http://labda.inf.uc3m.es/ddicorpus</a>) because their results can be compared with those reported in DDIExtraction 2013 (<a href="http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/semeval-2013/task9/" target="_blank">http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/semeval-2013/task9/</a>).
In order to advance in the extraction of drug–side effects
relationships, we also welcome contributions on the creation of gold
standard corpora annotated with drug–side effects.<br><br>Topics of interest for submission to this <span><span class="">special</span></span> <span><span class="">issue</span></span> include (but are not limited to):<br>
• Corpus development for <span class="">pharmacovigilance</span> text mining.<br>• Named entity recognition for pharmacological substances and side effects.<br>• Relation extraction between drugs, particularly DDIs.<br>
• Relation extraction between drugs and side effects.<br>• The creation and use of ontologies to represent knowledge relevant to drug interactions and adverse drug effects.<br>•
The use of biomedical ontologies in combination with text mining to
facilitate the detection of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) and DDIs.<br>• Review of the state of the art in text mining for <span class="">pharmacovigilance</span>.<br><br><br>Submission deadline: <b>September 30, 2014</b><br>
<br>All
submitted papers must be original and will undergo a rigorous
peer-review process with at least two reviewers. All submissions should
follow the guidelines for authors, available at the Journal of
Biomedical Informatics web site (<a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-biomedical-informatics" target="_blank">http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-biomedical-informatics</a>).<br><br>Authors must submit their paper by September 30, 2014 via the online Elsevier Editorial System (EES) at <a href="http://ees.elsevier.com/jbi" target="_blank">http://ees.elsevier.com/jbi</a>.<br>
<br>Please feel free to contact us if you need any further information.<br><br>With our best regards,<br><br>Isabel Segura-Bedmar and Paloma Martínez<span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">
Isabel Segura Bedmar<br>Profesor Visitante<br>Despacho 2.1.C.15, Telf: 91 624 59 61<br>Departamento de Informática, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid,<div>Laboratory for Advanced Database (LABDA)</div><div><a href="http://labda.inf.uc3m.es/doku.php?id=en:inicio" target="_blank">http://labda.inf.uc3m.es/doku.php?id=en:inicio</a></div>
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