Conference: Building & Evaluating Resources for Biomedical Text Mining

[Harold Schiffman]

Building & Evaluating Resources for Biomedical Text Mining
Short Title: BERBMTX-08

Date: 26-May-2008 - 26-May-2008
Location: Marrakech, Morocco
Contact Person: Sophia Ananiadou
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/


Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2008

Meeting Description:

We invite papers reporting on biomedical resources specifically used
to facilitate biomedical text mining and the process of designing,
building, updating, delivering, evaluating and disseminating them. A
focus of the workshop is on lexical and knowledge repositories (e.g.
controlled vocabularies, terminologies, ontologies, factual databases)
and annotated corpora. Another focus is on design guidelines,
standards for building resources, storage and exchange format,
interoperability of resources and last, on exploring new directions
for their dissemination.



We invite papers reporting on biomedical resources specifically used
to facilitate biomedical text mining and the process of designing,
building, updating, delivering, evaluating and disseminating them. A
focus of the workshop is on lexical and knowledge repositories (e.g.
controlled vocabularies, terminologies, ontologies, factual databases)
and annotated corpora. Another focus is on design guidelines,
standards for building resources, storage and exchange format,
interoperability of resources and last, on exploring new directions
for their dissemination.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Building biomedical resources: controlled vocabularies,
terminologies, ontologies, corpora
- Guidelines and annotation schemas, challenges, interoperability
- Building task-specific resources
- Reengineering existing biomedical or general language resources
- Augmentation of resources with biomedical features
- Update and evolution of resources
- Lightly annotated and noisy resources
- Tools for exploration of resources
- Data exchange formats
- Standards for building resources
- Documenting and disseminating resources
- Evaluation of resources

Organisers:

*Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining, University of Manchester,UK
*Monica Monachini, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy
*Goran Nenadic, University of Manchester, UK
*Jian Su, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

Important Dates:

February 15, 2008 Paper submissions due

March 20, 2008 Paper notification of acceptance

April 4, 2008 Camera-ready papers due

May 26, 2008 Workshop

Submissions:

Papers must describe original, completed or in progress, and
unpublished work. Each submission will be reviewed by three 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 2008.

Please send your electronic submissions in PDF format to
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=berbmtm08

Paper review will be double blind, so papers should not include
authors' names and affiliations. Self-references are to be
avoided--instead of ''As we showed in Smith et al. 1999...'', say ''As
Smith et al. 1999 showed....''.

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.

Program committee members:

Olivier Bodenreider, NLM, USA
Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Germany
Nicoletta Calzolari, CNR, Italy
Kevin B. Cohen, MITRE, USA
Nigel Collier, National Institute for Informatics, Japan
Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Beatrice Daille, University of Nantes, France
Udo Hahn, Jena University, Germany
Marti Hearst, Berkeley, USA
Martin Krallinger, Protein Design group, Spain
Ewan Klein, Edinburgh University, UK
Mark Liberman, CIS, UPenn, USA
Liu, Hong Fang, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA
John McNaught, University of Manchester, UK
Simonetta Montemagni, CNR, Italy
Claire Nedellec, CNRS, Framce
Adeline Nazarenko, LIPN, Paris 13, France
John Pestian, Computational Medicine Center, Cincinnati Children's, USA
Dietrich Rebholz, EMBL-EBI, UK
Patrick Ruch, University Hospital of Geneva and Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology
Hagit Shatkay, Queen's University, USA
Stefan Schulz, Freiburg University Hospital, Germany
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, University of Manchester, UK
Jun-ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan and University of Manchester, UK
Karin Verspoor, Los Alamos National Labs, USA
Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI-CNRS, France

Workshop contact person:

Sophia.Ananiadoumanchester.ac.uk

National Centre for Text Mining, Computer Science, University of Manchester
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