[Corpora-List] Building and evaluating resources for biomedical text mining (LREC 2010)

[Sophia Ananiadou]

2nd Workshop on Building and Evaluating Resources for Biomedical Text Mining (BioTxtM 2010)

LREC2010 (Malta, 17 May - 23 May 2010)
Mediterranean Conference Center in Valletta, Malta

We invite papers reporting on biomedical resources specifically used to facilitate biomedical text mining and the process of designing, building, updating, delivering and evaluating them. The goals of the workshop are on lexical and knowledge repositories such as terminologies, ontologies, controlled vocabularies, factual databases, annotated corpora, but also on design guidelines, standards for building resources, storage and exchange formats and interoperability of resources. 

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Building biomedical resources: controlled vocabularies, terminologies, ontologies, corpora
* Guidelines and annotation schemas, challenges, interoperability
* Reengineering existing biomedical or general language resources 
* Update and evolution of resources
* Interoperability of resources and standards
* Lightly annotated and noisy resources
* Tools for exploration of resources
* Data exchange formats
* Evaluation of resources / evaluation metrics


ORGANISATION
*Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining, University of Manchester
*Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Center for Computational Pharmacology, The MITRE Corporation
*Dina Demner-Fushman, National Library of Medicine

DATES
February 25, 2010    Paper submissions due
March 25, 2010        Paper notification of acceptance
April 15, 2010          Camera-ready papers due
May 18, 2010           Workshop 

SUBMISSIONS
Papers must describe original, completed or in progress, and unpublished work.  Each submission will be reviewed by two program committee members.
Accepted papers will be given eight pages in the workshop proceedings, and may be presented 
either as a poster or an oral presentation.  
Online submission for papers: your paper (up to 8 pages) should be formatted according to the 
stylesheet provided at LREC 2010 

Please send your electronic submissions in PDF format to:

https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/BioTxtM2010/    

Paper review will be blind, so papers should not include authors' names and affiliations. 
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. 

When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential 
information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation 
kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. 
For further information on this new initiative, please refer to 

http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources  

PC MEMBERS

Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA
Wendy Chapman, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Aaron Cohen, Oregon Health and Science University 
Liu Hong Fang, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA
Martin Krallinger, National Biotechnology Center, Spain
John McNaught, University of Manchester, UK
John Pestian, Computational Medicine Center, University of Cincinnati, USA
Andrey Rzhetsky, University of Chicago, USA
Jian Su, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Junichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan and National Centre for Text Mining, UK
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, JAIST, Japan
Karin Verspoor, Center for Computational Pharmacology, University of Colorado, USA
Xinglong Wang, University of Manchester, UK
Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh, UK
John Wilbur, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA
Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, France

Workshop contact person:
Sophia.Ananiadou at manchester.ac.uk  
National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK 


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Professor Sophia Ananiadou, School of Computer Science,
Director, National Centre for Text Mining,
Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre
University of Manchester
131 Princess Street, M1 7DN
www.nactem.ac.uk  
sophia.ananiadou at manchester.ac.uk
tel: +44 161 306 3092


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