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Date: 29-Dec-2010
From: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen [kevin.cohen at gmail.com]
Subject: BioNLP 2011

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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:54:55
From: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen [kevin.cohen at gmail.com]
Subject: BioNLP 2011

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Full Title: BioNLP 2011 
Short Title: BioNLP 2011 

Date: 23-Jun-2011 - 24-Jun-2011
Location: Portland, Oregon, USA 
Contact Person: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen
Meeting Email: kevin.cohen at gmail.com
Web Site: http://compbio.ucdenver.edu/BioNLP2011/index.shtml 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 29-Mar-2011 

Meeting Description:

BioNLP 2011 is the tenth workshop on biomedical natural language processing being held in conjunction with the annual ACL or NAACL meeting. BioNLP 2011 will be held at the ACL/HLT 2011 meeting in Portland, Oregon, under the auspices of SIGBIOMED, the ACL's special interest group for biomedical natural language processing. The meeting will be held June 23-24, 2011.

This year's meeting will host a shared task run by the GENIA group at the University of Tokyo. The second day of the meeting will be devoted to the shared task. For information on the shared task, see
https://sites.google.com/site/bionlpst/. 

Call for Papers

BioNLP 2011
http://compbio.ucdenver.edu/BioNLP2011
June 23-24, 2011, Portland, Oregon

Over the course of the past nine years, the ACL BioNLP workshop has established itself as the primary venue for presenting foundational research in language processing for the biological and medical domains. The workshop serves as both a venue for bringing together researchers in bio- and clinical NLP, and a venue for informing mainstream ACL researchers about this fast-growing and important domain. This year will be the tenth year that the workshop has been held in association with the annual ACL or NAACL meeting and the third year that the workshop is associated with the new SIGBIOMED special interest group. in accordance with the ACL SIGBIOMED (www.sigbiomed.org) tradition of presenting work on a broad range of topics, we invite submissions on any topic of current interest in the field of Biomedical Natural Language Processing. Topics especially encouraged include:

* Implemented and integrated BioNLP systems
* Entity identification and normalization for a broad range of semantic categories
* Extraction of complex relations
* Discourse analysis
* Anaphora and coreference resolution
* Text mining
* Summarization
* Translation of clinical data for patients
* Question Answering
* Resources and novel strategies for system testing and evaluation
* Computational analysis of linguistic correlates of biomedical conditions 

Submission Instructions

Two types of submissions are invited: full papers and poster abstracts. Submissions are due by 11:59 PM EST on Friday, April 1, 2011. Submit your paper or abstract via the START website:

https://www.softconf.com/acl2011/bionlp/

Full papers should not exceed eight (8) pages of text and two pages of references. These are intended to be reports of original research. BioNLP aims to be the forum for interesting, innovative, and promising work involving biomedicine and language technology, whether or not yielding high performance at the moment. This by no means precludes our interest in and preference for mature results, strong performance, and thorough evaluation. Both types of research and combinations thereof are encouraged.

Poster abstracts should not exceed two (2) pages. Accepted abstracts will be published in a separate section of the workshop proceedings. Appropriate poster topics include preliminary results, application notes, descriptions of work in progress, etc.

Submissions must be electronic and in PDF format, and should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings. Please see the conference website for detailed typesetting specifications. Authors are strongly encouraged to use the style files and formatting instructions available on the ACL/HLT conference website:

http://acl2011.org/call.shtml#submission (scroll down)

Submissions need to be anonymous. Authors who cannot submit a PDF file electronically should contact the workshop organizers well in advance of the submission deadline.

Dual submission policy: note that papers may not be submitted to the BioNLP 2011 workshop if they are or will be concurrently submitted to another meeting or publication and that other meeting or publication prohibits dual submissions. If your paper is also submitted to ISMB or AMIA, you should expect it to be rejected by ISMB and AMIA. If your paper is or will be concurrently under consideration by another meeting or publication, notify us of that fact in a footnote on the first page. Do not dual-submit your BioNLP 2011 workshop paper to ISMB or AMIA.

Shared Task Submissions

Submissions for papers on the shared task are being handled separately. For more information on shared task paper submissions, see
https://sites.google.com/site/bionlpst/.

ACL Mentoring Service

ACL is providing a mentoring (coaching) service for authors from regions of the world where English is less emphasized as a language of scientific exchange. Many authors from these regions, although able to read the scientific literature in English, have little or no experience in writing papers in English for conferences such as the ACL meetings. The service will be arranged as follows. A set of potential mentors will be identified by Mentoring Service Chair Tim Baldwin (U. Melbourne), who will organize this service for ACL/HLT 2011. If you would like to take advantage of the service for a submission to this workshop, please upload your paper in PDF format using the paper submission software for the mentoring service available at:

https://www.softconf.com/acl2011/mentoring/

The deadline for the mentoring service is six weeks before the workshop submission deadline. An appropriate mentor will be assigned to your paper and the mentor will get back to you no later than two weeks before the submission deadline.

Please note that this service is for the benefit of the authors as described above. It is not a general mentoring service for authors to improve the technical content of their papers.

Questions about the mentoring service should be referred to tb at ldwin.net.

Important Dates

March 29, 2011: Submission deadline
April 25, 2011: Notification of acceptance
May 2, 2011: Camera-ready copy due from authors
June 23-24: Workshop

Program Committee

The organizing committee for BioNLP 2011 is:

* Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Center for Computational Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine and The MITRE Corporation
* Dina Demner-Fushman, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications
* Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester and UK National Centre for Text Mining
* John Pestian, Computational Medicine Center, University of Cincinnati,
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
* Jun'ichi Tsujii, U. Tokyo and UK National Centre for Text Mining
* Bonnie Webber, U. Edinburgh 

The program committee for BioNLP 2011 comprises a strong set of BioNLP researchers from North America, Europe, and Asia:

* Alan Aronson, LHNCBC, US National Library of Medicine
* Catherine Blake, University of North Carolina
* Olivier Bodenreider, LHNCBC, US National Library of Medicine
* Wendy Chapman, University of Pittsburgh
* Aaron Cohen, Oregon Health and Science University
* Nigel Collier, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo
* Noemie Elhadad, Columbia University
* Marcelo Fiszman, US National Library of Medicine
* Kristofer Franzén, Swedish Institute of Computer Science
* Filip Ginter, University of Turku, Finland
* Su Jian, A-star
* Jin-Dong Kim, University of Tokyo
* Marc Light, Thomson
* Zhiyong Lu, NCBI, US National Library of Medicine
* Aurelie Neveol, US National Library of Medicine
* Serguei Pakhomov, University of Minnesota
* Sampo Pyysalo, University of Tokyo, Japan
* Thomas Rindflesch, LHNCBC, US National Library of Medicine
* Brian Roark, Oregon Graduate Institute
* Daniel Rubin, Stanford University
* Andrey Rzhetsky, U. Chicago
* Hagit Shatkay, Queen's University, Canada
* Larry Smith, NCBI, US National Library of Medicine
* Yuka Tateisi, Kogakuin University, Japan
* Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, JAIST, Japan
* Alfonso Valencia, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia
* Karin Verspoor, University of Colorado School of Medicine
* Xinglong Wang, UK National Centre for Text Mining
* Peter White, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
* W. John Wilbur, NCBI, US National Library of Medicine
* Limsoon Wong, National University of Singapore
* Hong Yu, University of Wisconsin
* Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI

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