Corpora: CFP: NLPBA 2002 (web update)

[Patrick Ruch]

NLPBA 2002: Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedical
Applications

http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/NLPBA02/

Call for Papers

http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/NLPBA02/CFP.html

Organized by the Working Group 8 of EFMI on Natural Language Understanding
Held in conjunction with the EFMI Special Topics Spring Conference

8-9 March 2002

Nicosia, Cyprus

Description
Scientific knowledge in medicine and in molecular biology is contained in
ever increasing collections of documents as well as scientific databases.
Processing of medical texts can rely on classifications and medical
vocabularies such as GALEN, UMLS, SNOMED and ICD, which have been used in
conjunction with NLP tools and techniques for various medical applications.
NLP techniques applied to the field of molecular biology concentrate on
semantic disambiguation. Indeed, it is a major problem for this field. Due
to the overwhelming number of both existing and newly-created concepts,
scientists cannot search such databases efficiently, as they are
intrinsically heterogeneous and dynamic. Researchers in medicine and biology
would therefore benefit from textual tools to facilitate the discovery and
identification of important and relevant concepts.

Workshop organisation
This workshop aims at concentrating at one place many of the best experts in
NLP for biomedical applications. The location can be conveniently reached
from anywhere in Europe and is propitious for scientific debates. The
audience is expected not to exceed 50 persons, inspiring direct face to face
communications. Together with the workshop proceedings, a joint publication
of the invited papers and the best presentations will be organized in the
International Journal of Medical Informatics (IJMI) in the best time frame
after the workshop.

Topics
-The topics of the workshop include (but are not limited to):
-Use of existing scientific thesauri and databases as terminological
resources for sublanguage applications
-Thesaurus & ontology construction and maintenance from domain specific
texts
-Integration of scientific databases and linguistic resources
-Text mining and information retrieval
-Term extraction and disambiguation
-Comparative corpus linguistics
-Semantic annotation and evaluation


Organisers
Robert Baud (WG-8 chair)
Medical Informatics Division
University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Patrick Ruch (WG-8 co-chair)
Medical Informatics Division - Department of Computer Science
University of Geneva - Swiss National Institute of Technology, Lausanne,
Switzerland

Scientific Committee
Sophia Ananiadou (Salford University, UK)
Olivier Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine, USA)
Berry de Bruijn (NRC, Canada)
Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Germany)
Anita Burgun (CHUR, France)
Werner Ceuster (LANDC, Belgium)
Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea)
Udo Hahn (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Germany)
Arie Hasman (Maastricht University, Holland)
Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou (Columbia University, USA)
Judith Klavans (Columbia University, USA)
Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM-SIM/DSI, France)

Format of Submissions
Paper submissions should consist of full papers of 5 pages maximum (times,
11pt). The submission should include two copies of the paper: one full copy
and one anonymous.Each submission should include a separate title page
providing the following information: the title, a short abstract (max. 150
words), names and affiliations of all the authors, the full address of the
primary author, including email. The authors are requested to submit an
electronic version of their papers (ps, pdf or doc). Electronic submissions
should be sent to Patrick Ruch (Patrick.Ruch at dim.hcuge.ch). The official
language of the Conference is English. We encouraged submission of work
conducted on lesser studied languages.

Important Deadlines
Submission deadline: January 15, 2002
Notification Date: February 10, 2002
Camera ready copy due: February 26, 2002
Workshop date: March 8-9, 2002

Website http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/NLPBA02/