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A workshop of HLT-NAACL 2006 Brooklyn, NY E-mail: bionlp_workshop_2006 at lanl dot gov
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Call for PapersLinking Natural Language Processing and Biology: Towards deeper biological literature analysis (BioNLP'06)bionlp_workshop_2006 at lanl dot gov
An HLT-NAACL'06 workshop
This workshop will bring researchers in text processing in the bioinformatics and biomedical domains together to discuss how techniques from natural language processing and information retrieval can be exploited to address biological information needs. We invite papers on recent, substantial, original and unpublished research in this area. The workshop will be part of the HLT-NAACL 2006 meeting (http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/hlt-naacl06/), hosted by New York University in New York City. WORKSHOP SCOPEThere remain significant challenges in biological literature exploitation, in particular for such biological problem areas as automated function prediction and pathway reconstruction and linguistic applications such as relation extraction and abstractive summarization. In the light of these remaining challenges, the focus of this workshop will be on applications that move towards deeper semantic analysis. We are particularly interested in work that addresses relatively under-explored areas such as summarization and question-answering from biological information.Papers describing applications of semantic processing technologies to the biology domain are especially invited. That is, the primary topics of interest are applications which require deeper linguistic analysis of the biological literature, or issues in porting NLP systems originally constructed for other domains to the biology domain. What makes the biology domain special? What hurdles must be overcome in performing linguistic analysis of biological text? Are any special linguistic or knowledge resources required beyond a domain-specific lexicon? What relations in biological text are most interesting to biologists, and hence should be the focus of our future efforts? However, submissions on all topics related to natural language processing in the bioinformatics, biomedicine, and molecular biology domains are welcome, including:
KEYNOTEThe Keynote Speech will be given by Andrey Rzhetsky of Columbia University's Department of Biomedical Informatics.SUBMISSION GUIDELINESWe invite two types of submissions: full papers and poster abstracts. Submissions are due by 11:59pm EST on February 28, 2006. Submit your paper or abstract via the HLT-NAACL site (we'll post the address as soon as the site is set up to accommodate workshop submissions).Full papers should not exceed eight (8) pages including references. These are intended to be reports of original and mature research. 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. Format: 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 LaTeX or Microsoft Word style files available on the website (http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/hlt-naacl06/styles/index.html). Authors who cannot submit a PDF file electronically should contact the workshop organizers well in advance of the submission deadline. Reviewing of submissions will be blind. Do not include author names in the paper. Avoid self-references -- instead of "As we showed in Smith et al. 1999...", say "As Smith et al. 1999 showed...." The paper submission software will allow you to enter full author information separately from your paper. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two program committee members. A PDF file of the paper must be uploaded to the HLT-NAACL website at http://www.softconf.com/start/HLT-WS06-BioNLP/ by 11:59pm EST of the deadline. Papers submitted after that time will not be reviewed. You will enter author identification and contact information through the website; since reviewing will be blind, do not include the author names or contact information in the submission itself. IMPORTANT DATESPaper submission due: February 28, 2006 (11:59pm EST)Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2006 Camera-ready paper due: April 16, 2006 Workshop: June 8, 2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEEbionlp_workshop_2006 at lanl dot gov
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