[Corpora-List] Announcement of BioNLP Shared Task 2011 (BioNLP-ST'11)

[Jin-Dong Kim]

(apologies for duplicate posting)

We are pleased to announce the BioNLP Shared Task 2011.

The BioNLP Shared Task series represents a community-wide move in
bio-textmining toward fine-grained information extraction (IE). The
first event, the BioNLP 2009 shared task (Dec. 2008-March 2009),
attracted wide attention, with 24 teams submitting final results. The
task setup and data have since served as the basis of numerous studies
and published event extraction systems and datasets. The BioNLP Shared
Task 2011 (BioNLP-ST'11) is the follow-up event to the BioNLP 2009
shared task. While following the general outline and goals of the
previous task in defining biologically relevant extraction targets and
a linguistically motivated approach to event representation, the
upcoming task will generalize and extend on the previous in three key
aspects: text type, domain, and targeted event types. Manually
annotated data where all annotations are bound to specific expressions
in text will be provided for training, development and evaluation of
extraction methods, and tools for detailed evaluation of system
outputs will be made available. Participation to the task is open to
all interested parties.

Sample data for each task is available and registration for the task
open since 14 Sep. 2010.

For details of the shared task, please see the shared task website
https://sites.google.com/site/bionlpst .


<Schedule> (Tentative)

Sample Data Release        14 Sep. 2010
Supporting Tasks
    Training Data Release 24 Sep. 2010
    Test Data Release     24 Oct. 2010
    Result Submission     29 Oct. 2010
    Result Notification   31 Oct. 2010
Main Tasks
    Training Data Release  1 Dec. 2010
    Test Data Release      1 Mar. 2011
    Result Submission      8 Mar. 2011
    Results Notification  10 Mar. 2011
Manuscript Submission       8 Apr. 2011


<Organization>

Scientific Advisory Committee
    * Jun'ichi Tsujii (Univ. Tokyo, NaCTeM) - Chair
    * Sophia Ananiadou (NaCTeM, Manchester)
    * Kevin Cohen (University of Colorado School of Medicine)
    * Claire Nedellec (INRA)
    * Andrey Rzhetsky (Univ. Chicago)
    * Bruno Sobral (Virginia Bioinformatics Inst.)
    * Tapio Salakoski (Univ. Turku)
    * Toshihisa Takagi (DBCLS)

Organizing Committee
    * Jin-Dong Kim (DBCLS) - Chair
    * Sampo Pyysalo (Univ. Tokyo) - Chair
    * Tomoko Ohta (Univ. Tokyo)
    * Robert Bossy (INRA)
    * Chunhong Mao (Virginia Bioinformatics Inst.)
    * Dan Sullivan (Virginia Bioinformatics Inst.)
    * Rafal Rak (NaCTeM, Manchester)
    * Nguyen Luu Thuy Ngan (Univ. Tokyo)

Contact
    * Web: https://sites.google.com/site/bionlpst
    * Mail: bionlp-st at googlegroups.com
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