2nd Workshop on Building and Evaluating Resources for Biomedical Text Mining (BioTxtM 2010)
LREC2010 (Malta, 18th May 2010) Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta, Malta
http://www.nactem.ac.uk/biotxtm/
** IMPORTANT DATES ** FEBRUARY 17, 2010 **EXTENDED PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE** MARCH 5, 2010 Paper notification of acceptance MARCH 12, 2010 Camera-ready papers due MAY 18, 2010 Workshop
We invite papers reporting on biomedical resources specifically used to facilitate biomedical text mining and the process of designing, building, updating, delivering and evaluating them. The goals of the workshop are on lexical and knowledge repositories such as terminologies, ontologies, controlled vocabularies, factual databases, annotated corpora, but also on design guidelines, standards for building resources, storage and exchange formats and interoperability of resources. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Building biomedical resources: controlled vocabularies, terminologies, ontologies, corpora * Guidelines and annotation schemas, challenges, interoperability * Reengineering existing biomedical or general language resources * Update and evolution of resources * Interoperability of resources and standards * Lightly annotated and noisy resources * Tools for exploration of resources * Data exchange formats * Evaluation of resources / evaluation metrics
ORGANISATION *Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining, University of Manchester *Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Center for Computational Pharmacology, The MITRE Corporation *Dina Demner-Fushman, National Library of Medicine
SUBMISSIONS Papers must describe original, completed or in progress, and unpublished work. Each submission will be reviewed by two 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 on the LREC 2010 website (http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?Author-s-Kit-and-Templates)
Please submit your papers electronically in PDF format using the following site:
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/BioTxtM2010/ Paper review will be blind, so papers should not include authors' names and affiliations. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research.
For further information on this new initiative, please refer to http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources
PC MEMBERS Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Wendy Chapman, University of Pittsburgh, USA Aaron Cohen, Oregon Health and Science University Liu Hong Fang, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA Martin Krallinger, National Biotechnology Center, Spain John McNaught, University of Manchester, UK John Pestian, Computational Medicine Center, University of Cincinnati, USA Andrey Rzhetsky, University of Chicago, USA Jian Su, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Junichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan and National Centre for Text Mining, UK Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, JAIST, Japan Karin Verspoor, Center for Computational Pharmacology, University of Colorado, USA Xinglong Wang, University of Manchester, UK Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh, UK John Wilbur, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, France
Workshop contact person: Sophia.Ananiadou at manchester.ac.uk National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK
-- Paul Thompson Research Associate and PA to Professor Sophia Ananiadou School of Computer Science National Centre for Text Mining Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre University of Manchester 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK Tel: 0161 306 3091 http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Paul.Thompson/