[Corpora-List] BioCreative IV Call for Participation

[Kevin B. Cohen]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
 BioCreative IV Challenge and Workshop
 October 7-9, 2013, NCBI, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

  http://www.biocreative.org/events/biocreative-iv/CFP/

      SUMMARY

 BioCreative: Critical Assessment of Information Extraction in Biology
(http://www.biocreative.org/) is a community-wide effort for
evaluating text mining and information extraction systems applied to
the biological domain. Building on the success of the previous
BioCreative Challenge Evaluations and Workshops (BioCreative I, II,
II.5, III, and 2012 workshop) [1-5], the BioCreative Organizing
Committee will host the BioCreative IV Challenge
(http://www.biocreative.org/events/biocreative-iv/CFP/) at NCBI,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, on October 7-9,
2013. One key goal of BioCreative is the active involvement of the
text mining user community in the design of the tracks, preparation of
corpus and the testing of interactive systems. For BioCreative IV, the
selection of the tracks has been driven in part by suggestions from
the biocuration community during the BioCreative workshop 2012, and by
our goal of addressing a major barrier on system usage/adoption:
interoperability.

This time BioCreative IV will consist of five tracks:

Track 1: Interoperability (BioC) – Development of an interoperable
BioNLP module that can be seamlessly coupled to BioC compliant modules
(http://www.biocreative.org/events/biocreative-iv/CFP/#track1);

Track 2: Chemical and Drug Named Entity Recognition (CHEMDNER) –
Detection of mentions of chemical compounds and drugs, in particular
those chemical entity mentions that can subsequently be linked to a
chemical structure
(http://www.biocreative.org/events/biocreative-iv/CFP/#track2);

Track 3: Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) Curation –
Provision of Web Services to identify gene, chemical, disease, and
action term mentions supporting CTD curation in PubMed abstracts
(http://www.biocreative.org/events/biocreative-iv/CFP/#track3);

Track 4: Gene Ontology (GO) curation –  Development of modules to aid
GO curators in identifying articles with curatable GO information
(triage) and extracting gene function terms and the associated
evidence sentences in full-length articles
(http://www.biocreative.org/events/biocreative-iv/CFP/#track4);

Track 5: Interactive Curation (IAT) –  Demonstration and evaluation of
web-based systems addressing user-defined tasks, evaluated by curators
on performance and usability.

An extended description of the tracks is offered at the end of this
document (http://www.biocreative.org/events/biocreative-iv/CFP/#track5).

      REGISTRATION:

Teams can participate in one or more of these tracks. Team
registration will start on November 19 and will continue until final
commitment is requested by the individual tracks.

To register a team go to http://www.biocreative.org/news/biocreative-iv/team/


    IMPORTANT DATES:

    Registration starts November 19.
    To check on upcoming deadlines please visit
http://www.biocreative.org/events/biocreative-iv/CFP/#dates.


    BIOCREATIVE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Cecilia Arighi, University of Delaware, USA
Kevin Cohen, University of Colorado, USA
Lynette Hirschman, MITRE Corporation, USA
Martin Krallinger, Spanish National Cancer Centre, CNIO, Spain
Zhiyong Lu, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), NIH, USA
Carolyn Mattingly, North Carolina State University, USA
Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Centre, CNIO, Spain
Thomas Wiegers, North Carolina State University, USA
John Wilbur, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), NIH, USA
Cathy Wu, University of Delaware and Georgetown University, USA



    USER ADVISORY GROUP

Chairs: Cecilia Arighi and Zhiyong Lu

 Judith Blake, MGI, The Jackson Laboratory, USA
Andrew Chatr-aryamontri, BioGrid, Canada
Stan Laulederkind, Rat Genome Database, USA
Donghui Li, TAIR, USA
Sherri Matis, Astrazeneca, USA
Fiona McCarthy, Agbase, USA
Peter McQuilton, Flybase, UK
Sandra Orchard, IntAct, UK
Phoebe Roberts, Pfizer, USA
Mary Schaeffer, MaizeGDB, USA
Kimberly Van-Auken, Wormbase, USA

-- 
Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, PhD
Biomedical Text Mining Group Lead, Computational Bioscience Program,
U. Colorado School of Medicine
303-916-2417 (cell) 303-377-9194 (home)
http://compbio.ucdenver.edu/Hunter_lab/Cohen

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