[Corpora-List] Hawaii: New Frontiers in Biomedical Text Mining - A Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing Session -- First CFP

[Demner Fushman, Dina (NIH/NLM/LHC) [E]]

Dear all,

Please find below the first call for papers for the NLP session at PSB
in 2007.

Regards,
Dina.

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New Frontiers in Biomedical Text Mining 
A Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing Session
January 3-7, 2007
Grand Wailea Resort, Wailea, Maui, Hawaii
http://psb.stanford.edu/cfp-nlp.html

Important dates:
	Paper submissions due:			July 17, 2006
	Notification of paper acceptance:	September 6, 2006
	Final paper deadline: 			September 25, 2006
	Meeting dates: 				January 3-7, 2007

Papers are invited on the topic of text data mining in its strictest
sense: 
providing users with information not explicitly stated in text. Work
submitted to 
this session will be required to be more ambitious with respect to
either theory 
or reach than the entity identification, information extraction, and
information 
retrieval projects that comprise most work in biomedical language
processing. 

We especially solicit work in the following areas: 
o Question answering
o Summarization
o Mining data from full text including figures, tables, and images
o Coreference resolution and normalization
o User-driven systems, including user needs, user model, interactive
systems, 
  and user interfaces for biomedical language processing 
o Evaluation: test collections and evaluation methods

Session Chairs
o Pierre Zweigenbaum (Contact person)
  Inserm U729; Assistance Publique - Paris Hospitals; Inalco
  pz at biomath.jussieu.fr
o Dina Demner-Fushman
  Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications
  U.S. National Library of Medicine
  ddemner at mail.nih.gov
o Kevin Bretonnel Cohen 
  Center for Computational Pharmacology
  kevin.cohen at gmail.com
o Hong Yu
  College of Health Sciences
  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  yuh9001 at dbmi.columbia.edu

Submission information:
o All papers must be submitted to Russ Altman in PostScript (.ps), Adobe
Acrobat (.pdf), 
  or Microsoft Word (.doc) format. Adobe Acrobat is preferred. 
o Attached files should be named with the last name of the first author
( e.g. altman.ps, altman.pdf, or altman.doc). Hardcopy submissions or
unprocessed TeX or LaTeX files will be rejected without review.
o Every paper must be accompanied by a cover letter which must include
the following: 
	- The email address of the corresponding author
	- The specific PSB session that the paper should be considered
for
	- A statement that the submitted paper contains original, 
	  unpublished results, and is not currently under consideration
elsewhere 
	- A statement that all authors concur with the contents of the
paper
o Submitted papers are limited to twelve (12) pages in the PSB
publication format. 
o Please format your paper according to the instructions found at
http://psb.stanford.edu/psb-online/psb-submit/. 
o If figures cannot easily be resized and placed precisely in the text,
then it should be clear 
  that with appropriate modifications, the total manuscript length would
be within the page limit. 
o Color pictures can be printed at the expense of the authors. 
  The fee is $500 per page of color pictures, payable at the time of
camera-ready submission.
o Contact Russ Altman ( russ.altman at stanford.edu) for additional
information about paper submission requirements.

Program Committee Members:

	Eugene Agichtein, Microsoft Research
	Sophia Ananiadou, University of Salford
	Alan Aronson, U.S. National Library of Medicine 
	Sabine Bergler, Concordia University
	Olivier Bodenreider, U.S. National Library of Medicine 
	Breck Baldwin, Alias-i Inc
	Bob Carpenter, Alias-i Inc
	Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University
	James Cimino, Columbia University
	Aaron Cohen, Oregon Health Sciences University
	Nigel Collier, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
	Lynne Fox, University of Colorado
	Carol Friedman, Columbia University
	Robert Futrelle, Northeastern University 
	Henk Harkema, Cognia Corporation
	Marti Hearst, University of California, Berkeley 
	Lynette Hirschman, The MITRE Corporation
	Tom Rindflesch, U.S. National Library of Medicine 
	Jasmin Saric, University of Stuttgart
	Vijay Shanker, University of Daleware
	Hagit Shatkay, Queen's University 
	Padmini Srinivasan, University of Iowa
	Lorrie Tanabe, NCBI/U.S. National Library of Medicine
	Jun'ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo
	Alfonso Valencia, National Centre for Biotechnology, Madrid
	Karin Verspoor, Los Alamos National Laboratory 
	Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh
	John Wilbur, NCBI/U.S. National Library of Medicine