21.1162, Calls: Computational Ling, Semantics/United Kingdom

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Subject: 21.1162, Calls: Computational Ling, Semantics/United Kingdom

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Date: 08-Mar-2010
From: Fabio Rinaldi < rinaldi at cl.uzh.ch >
Subject: Fourth Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine

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Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:58:28
From: Fabio Rinaldi [rinaldi at cl.uzh.ch]
Subject: Fourth Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine

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Full Title: Fourth Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine 
Short Title: SMBM'10 

Date: 25-Oct-2010 - 26-Oct-2010
Location: Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Fabio Rinaldi
Meeting Email: smbm10 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.smbm.eu/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 30-Jul-2010 

Meeting Description:

The Fourth Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine (SMBM 2010) will be held
at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in
Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK on October 25th and 26th, 2010.

SMBM 2010 aims to bring together researchers from text and data mining in
biomedicine, medical, bio- and chemoinformatics, and researchers from biomedical
ontology design and engineering. SMBM 2010 is the follow-up event of SMBM 2005
(EBI, U.K.), SMBM 2006 (University of Jena, Germany) and SMBM 2008 (University
of Turku, Finland).

A parallel event (LBM: The International Symposium on Languages in Biology and
Medicine) has been held in 2005 (KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea), 2007 (Matrix,
Biopolis, Singapore) and 2009 (Jeju Island, South Korea). 

First Call for Papers

The biomedical research community eagerly awaits the full integration of very
large text collections, biological databases, ontologies and terminological
resources. 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 entity recognition and simple relation extraction to structured
event extraction have been deployed. Where do we stand and how do we advance
toward fully integrated systems combining the different tools 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,
the integration of text with domain resources such as micro-array data and
ontological resources such as GO, UMLS etc. We also welcome contributions from
across the biomedical domains, including genomics, translational medicine,
clinical practice, and public health.

For detailed up-to-date information, please consult the web site of the
conference: http://www.smbm.eu/

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

- Text mining, information extraction, and information retrieval
- Terminology and ontology development for biomedical information 
systems
- Evaluation techniques and standards for text mining solutions
- Integration of text and data mining in the biomedical domain
- 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
- Privacy/trust, e.g in processing of patient records
- 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
- (Semantic) Web mining of biomedical information

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
that will be available online. We invite both full and short papers,
where full papers will be given an oral presentation and short papers
presented as posters. Selected papers will be invited to submit an
extended version for publication in the Journal of Biomedical
Semantics (JBMS).

Submissions should follow the instructions for JBMS authors, with a
limit of eight (8) pages for full papers and four (4) pages for short
papers (plus one optional page for references). 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.

Important Dates
July 30, 2010: Paper submission deadline
August 30, 2010: Notification of acceptance
September 24, 2010: Camera-ready deadline
October 25-26, 2010: Conference

Scientific Chairs
Nigel Collier (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Udo Hahn (Jena University, Language & Information Engineering 
Lab, Germany)

Organizing Chairs
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK)
Fabio Rinaldi (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Sampo Pyysalo (University of Tokyo, Japan)

PC Committee
Adeline Nazarenko (Universite Paris-Nord, France)
Adrian Shephard (Birkbeck University of London, UK)
Ai Kawazoe (Tsuda college, Japan)
Alfonso Valencia (CNIO, Spain)
Anita Burgun-Parenthoine (University of Rennes, France)
Chun-Nan Hsu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Dina Demner-Fushman (National Library of Medicine, USA)
Filip Ginter (University of Turku, Finland)
Florian Leitner (CNIO, Spain)
Gerold Schneider (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Goran Nenadic (University of Manchester, UK)
Gwan-Su Yi (KAIST, South Korea)
Hagit Shatkay (Queen's University, Canada)
Hongfang Liu (Georgetown University Medical Center, USA)
Hyunju Lee (GIST, South Korea)
Jaewoo Kang (Korea University, South Korea)
Jin-Dong Kim (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Jong C. Park (KAIST, South Korea)
Jung-Jae Kim (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Jun'ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Japan and NaCTeM, UK)
Karin Verspoor (University of Colorado, USA)
Kevin Cohen (University of Colorado, USA)
Martin Krallinger (CNIO, Spain)
Martin Romacker (Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland)
Michael Krauthammer (Yale University School of Medicine, USA)
Olivier Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine, USA)
Patrick Lambrix (Linköping University, Sweden)
Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
See-Kiong Ng (I2R and NUS, Singapore)
Stefan Schulz (Freiburg University Hospital, Germany)
Wendy Chapman (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Jian Su (I2R, Singapore)
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka (JAIST, Ishikawa, Japan)
Yutaka Sasaki (Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan)
Tapio Salakoski (TUCS, Turku, Finland)
Tomoko Ohta (University of Tokyo, Japan)

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