Corpora: COMPUTATIONAL TERMINOLOGY FOR MEDICAL ANDBIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

[Effie Ananiadou]

Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing

                     http://www.cti.gr/nlp2000/

                     Patras, Greece

       Conference Workshop Announcement and Call for Participation


COMPUTATIONAL TERMINOLOGY FOR MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

                      Sunday, 4th June 2000

 FULL DETAILS at: http://www.salford.ac.uk/isrc/ananiadou/nlp2000.html

Workshop Description
======================

The workshop will provide a forum to bring together researchers from
interdisciplinary areas, such as computational linguistics, computer science,
terminology, medical informatics and bioinformatics.
Scientific knowledge in medicine and  in molecular biology is contained in
ever
increasing collections of documents as well as scientific databases.
Researchers in medicine and
biology would therefore benefit from textual tools to facilitate the
discovery and identification of important and relevant concepts.

Topics
========
The topics of the workshop include (but are not limited to):

1. Use of NLP in medical and biological terminology
(term extraction, automatic indexing, automatic classification, automatic
dataset creation and maintenance etc.)
2. Use of existing scientific thesauri and databases as terminological
resources
for sublanguage applications.
3. Thesaurus & ontology construction and maintenance from domain specific
texts
4. Integration of scientific databases and linguistic resources
5. Terminology based Information Extraction

 Organisers
 ==============
 Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford, UK)
                            Department of Computer Science, School of
                            Sciences,
                            University of Salford, Newton Building
                            Salford M5 4WT

 Diana Maynard  (Sheffield University, UK)
                     Department of Computer Science,
                     Regents Court, 211 Portobello Street
                     University of Sheffield Sheffield S1 4DP

 Scientific Committee
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* Erich Bornberg-Bauer (Manchester University, UK & EML, Germany)
* Gerhard Budin  (University of Vienna,Austria)
* Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea)
* Anne Condamines (CNRS, Toulouse, France)
* Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI, France)
* John Mantas (University of Athens, Greece)
* Ioanna Malagardi (General Secretariat for Research & Technology, Greece)
* Patrick Ruch   (University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland)
* Junichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Japan)
* Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM-SIM/DSI, France)


 Format of Submissions
 ========================

 Paper submissions should consist of an extended abstract (2000 words). Each
submission should include a separate title page providing the following
information: the title, a short abstract, names and affiliations of all the
authors, the full address of the primary author, including email.
The authors are requested to submit one electronic version of their papers
(ps
or doc). Electronic submissions should be sent to Sophia Ananiadou
(S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk).
 The official language of the Conference is English.

Contact person for the workshop
==================================
 Sophia Ananiadou

 Email: S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk
 Fax: +44-161-295-5559

 Important Deadlines
 ====================
 Extended Abstract Submission deadline: March 15, 2000
 Notification Date: April 10, 2000
 Camera ready copy due: May 10, 2000
 Workshop date: June 4, 2000