[Corpora-List] SMBM 2014: Final call for papers, and deadline extension

[Fabio Rinaldi]

Sixth International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine (SMBM 2014)

October 6th and 7th, University of Aveiro, Portugal

NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: June 30th, 2014

http://www.smbm.org/

SMBM 2014 aims to bring together researchers from text and data mining
in biomedicine, medical, bio- and chemoinformatics, and researchers
active in biomedical ontology design and engineering, and the Semantic
Web. The combined research helps to promote full integration of data
and factual content from large text collections, biological databases,
ontological and terminological resources, and from the Web.

However, many challenges have yet to be met to achieve this ambitious
goal. Significant advances have been made and many working systems for
tasks ranging from semantics driven literature analysis to
cross-resource data analysis and open linked data on the web have been
suggested and deployed. Where do we stand and how do we advance toward
fully integrated systems combining the different solutions and data
sources?

We are inviting papers from a full range of topics (see below),
emphasizing in particular work on methods deployed in a
production-like research environment, user-facing applications of text
mining technology, the integration of text with domain resources such
as content from reference databases (e.g., UniProt, EntrezGene, OMIM)
and semantic resources such as GO, UMLS etc. We also welcome
contributions from across the biomedical domains, including genomics,
translational medicine, clinical practice, and public health.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- Development and use of biomedical semantic resources
- Terminology and ontology development for biomedical information systems
- Integration of text and data mining in the biomedical domain
- (Semantic) Web mining of biomedical information
- Text mining, information extraction, and information retrieval for
the biomedical domain
- Evaluation techniques and standards for text mining solutions
- Annotation schemes for biomedical corpora
- Text mining for resource building, e.g. ontologies, and resource
  enrichment, e.g., biomedical databases
- Representation and discovery of biomedical domain knowledge
- Image/caption processing in relation to content extraction
- Domain-specific reasoning processes, e.g., to infer non-explicit
  information, validation (trust-worthiness, believability, safety) of
  extracted information
- Integration of text mining in biological database curation workflows

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
that will be available online. We invite three categories of papers:
full research papers, short papers and system papers. Research papers
will be given an oral presentation, short papers a poster
presentation, and systems papers will be presented in systems
demonstration sessions. System papers should describe an implemented
system related to a topic of interest that the authors will
demonstrate live during the symposium. The final modality of
presentation will be decided by the organizing committee.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended
version for publication in a special issue of the Journal of
Biomedical Semantics (JBMS), an open-access journal published by
BioMed Central (BMC).

Submissions should follow the ACL instructions for authors, with a
maximal limit of seven (7) pages (plus one optional page for
references). The recommended length for system papers and poster
submissions is four (4) pages. Manuscripts will be submitted
electronically as PDF files. Reviewing will be double-blind, and
submissions should therefore NOT contain author names or other
obviously identifying information.

SMBM 2014 is the follow-up event to SMBM 2012 (University of Zürich,
Switzerland) SMBM 2010 (EBI, U.K.), SMBM 2008 (University of Turku,
Finland), SMBM 2006 (University of Jena, Germany), and SMBM 2005 (EBI,
U.K.). The SMBM series of events are planned to be arranged every
second year, alternating with the “sister event” LBM (International
Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine). Previous LBM events
have taken place in Daejeon (LBM 2005), Singapore (LBM 2007), Jeju
island, Korea (LBM 2009), Singapore (LBM 2011), Tokyo (LBM 2013).

Important Dates

- Full paper submission deadline: June 30th 2014 [extended]
- Notification of acceptance for full papers: July 21st 2014
- Poster and system demonstration paper submission deadline: July 4th 2014
- Notification of poster and system demonstration papers: July 28th 2014
- Symposium dates: October 6-7th 2014


Committees
Scientific chairs

    Fabio Rinaldi, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA

Program chair

    José Luis Oliveira, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Local organization committee

    Andreia Davide, University of Aveiro, Portugal
    David Campos, BMD Software, Portugal
    Pedro Lopes, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Program committee

    Adrian Shepherd, Birkbeck University of London, UK
    David McClosky, Stanford University, USA
    Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Dina Demner-Fushman, National Library of Medicine, USA
    Florian Leitner, CNIO, Spain
    Francisco Couto, University of Lisbon, Portugal
    Gerold Schneider, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Goran Nenadic, University of Manchester, UK
    Gwan-Su Yi, KAIST, South Korea
    Hongfang Liu, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA
    Hyunju Lee, GIST, South Korea
    Jin-Dong Kim, Database Center for Life Science, Japan
    Jong C. Park, KAIST, South Korea
    Jung-Jae Kim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
    Karin Verspoor, NICTA, Australia
    Kevin Cohen, University of Colorado, USA
    Makoto Miwa, NaCTeM and University of Manchester, UK
    Mariana Neves, Hasso-Plattner Institut, Germany
    Martin Krallinger, CNIO, Spain
    Michael Krauthammer, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
    Mike Conway, University of Pittsburgh, USA
    Naoaki Okazaki, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
    Nigel Collier, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
    Patrick Lambrix, Linköping University, Sweden
    Patrick Ruch, University of Applied Sciences, Geneva
    Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI-CNRS, France
    Rune Sætre, University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
    Sampo Pyysalo, NaCTeM and University of Manchester, UK
    Sérgio Matos, University of Aveiro, Portugal
    Sophia Ananiadou, NaCTeM and University of Manchester, UK
    Stefan Schulz, Medical University Graz, Austria
    Tomoko Ohta, NaCTeM and University of Manchester, UK
    Udo Hahn, University of Jena, Germany
    Wendy Chapman, University of Pittsburgh, USA
    Yutaka Sasaki, Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan

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