18.3336, Calls: Computational Ling/Singapore

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Date: 06-Nov-2007
From: Jian Su < sujian at i2r.a-star.edu.sg >
Subject: Languages in Biology and Medicine

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Subject: Languages in Biology and Medicine
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Full Title: Languages in Biology and Medicine 
Short Title: LBM 2007 

Date: 06-Dec-2007 - 07-Dec-2007
Location: Singapore, Singapore 
Contact Person: Jian Su
Meeting Email: sujian at i2r.a-star.edu.sg
Web Site: http://lbm2007.biopathway.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 06-Dec-2007 

Meeting Description

The International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM) 2007
seeks to provide a renewed opportunity for interaction between language
professionals with different methodological backgrounds. LBM was established in
2005 and the remit of this event remains highly relevant today. The symposium
focuses on the languages that are in active use for biology and medicine. We are
calling for original research papers on, but not limited to the topics listed
below. Papers focusing on application aspects of languages in biology and
medicine are also invited. 

- Natural language: text mining, retrieval and management;

- Ontology language: ontology construction, extension and management;

- Logic language: knowledge representation and induction;

- Sequence language: RNA structure prediction, protein domain prediction;

- Database language: database interface, query language;

- Visualization language: information visualization, molecular visualization. 

LBM 2007 Call for Participation

Registration is now open

Registration for LBM 2007 is now open.  Please go to the LBM 2007 website at 
http://lbm2007.biopathway.org and register and book your accommodation.

Important Dates

Hotel reservation deadline: November 15, 2007
Early registration deadline: November 15, 2007
Panel Discussion: December 7, 2007
Banquet: December 6, 2007
Symposium: December 6-7, 2007

Table of Contents

1. LBM 2007 in Biopolis, Singapore
2. Organizing Committee
3. Swissotel the Stamford Hotel Reservation Deadline
4. Lists of Accepted Papers
5. Acceptance Rates
6. Invited Speeches
7. Panel Discussion

1. LBM 2007 in Biopolis, Singapore

The 2nd International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM) 
will be held at Matrix, Biopolis, Singapore, located near the Ministry of
Education and on 30 Biopolis Street. The symposium banquet will take place on
Thursday 6 December. The participants to LBM2007 are also welcome at the banquet
for the International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW), as well as for the
conference itself, to be held on December 3-5 back-to-back with LBM 2007. 

2. Organizing Committee

Steering Committee
See-Kiong Ng, I2R, Singapore
Jong C. Park, KAIST, Korea
Limsoon Wong, NUS, Singapore

General Chairs
Jong C. Park, KAIST, Korea
Limsoon Wong, NUS, Singapore

Programme Committee Chairs
Christopher J. O. Baker, I2R, Singapore
Su Jian, I2R, Singapore

Local Organizing Chair
Rajaraman Kanagasabai, I2R, Singapore

Programme Committee
Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, UK 
Vlad Bajic, University of the Western Cape, South Africa 
Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA 
Christian Blaschke, Bioalma, Spain 
Anita Burgun, Universite de Rennes, France 
Werner Ceusters, Buffalo NY, USA 
Kevin B. Cohen, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, USA 
Nigel Collier, National Institute for Informatics, Japan 
Mark Craven, University of Wisconsin, USA 
Rebholz Dietrich, EMBL-EBI, UK 
Julian Gough, University of Bristol, UK 
Volker Haarslev, Concordia University, Canada 
Udo Hahn, Jena University, Germany 
Lynette Hirschman, MITRE, USA 
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada 
Ewan Klein, Edinburgh University, UK 
Satoshi Kobayashi, University of Electro-Communications, Japan 
Michael Krauthammer, Yale University School of Medicine, USA 
Patrick Lambrix, Linköping University, Sweden 
Liu, Hong Fang, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA 
Yves Lussier, University of Chicago, USA 
Erik van Mulligen, Erasmus MC, Netherlands 
Jinah Park, Information & Communications University, Korea 
Tom Rindflesch, National Library of Medicine, USA 
Jasmin Saric, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Germany 
Neil Sarkar, Woods Hole, USA 
Stefan Schulz, Freiburg University Hospital, Germany 
Donia Scott, Open University, UK 
Hagit Shatkay, Queen's University, Canada 
Margaret Anne Storey, University Victoria, Canada 
Jun'ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan, University of Manchester, UK 
Alfonso Valencia, CNIO, Spain 
W. John Wilbur, NIH, USA 
Rene Witte, University of Karlsruhe, Germany 
Hong Yu, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA 
Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI-CNRS, France

3. Swissotel the Stamford Hotel Reservation Deadline

The deadline for conference-rate reservation in the Swissotel the Stamford has 
been extended to November 15, 2007.  After this date the hotel can guarantee 
neither the accommodation nor the prices.

For more information about the accommodation and reservations see page 
http://lbm2007.biopathway.org/Registration.htm . Please note that the delegates
to LBM2007 can reserve their rooms by November 15, though the room reservations
form for the hotel states that it should be sent before ''07 November, 2007''. 

4. Lists of Accepted Papers

Please see the lists of papers being accepted to the LBM special issue of BMC 
Bioinformatics and for long oral presentations and papers being accepted for
short oral presentations at:
http://lbm2007.biopathway.org/AcceptedPapers.htm. 

5. Acceptance Rates

Here are the numbers of submissions, accepted papers and counted acceptance 
rates:

Papers being accepted to the LBM special issue of BMC Bioinformatics and for
long oral presentations: 25.5% (12 out of 47)
Papers for short oral presentations: 31.4% (11 out of 35)

6. Invited Speeches

Three invited speeches will be offered at the symposium. The abstract and
the short biography of each invited speaker is available at: 
http://lbm2007.biopathway.org/Speakers.htm. 

Invited Speakers:
Olivier Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine, USA)
Sophia Ananiadou (University of Manchester, UK)
Patrick Lambrix (Linköpings Universitet, Sweden)

7. Panel Discussion

The panel discussion will be offered on the second day of the symposium. 

Title: Biomedical Languae and Biomedical Knowledge: Emerging Synergies
Chair: Jun-ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Panelists: Invited Speakers

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