BioNLP'06 Linking natural language processing and biology: towards deeper biological literature analysis
A workshop of HLT-NAACL 2006
Brooklyn, NY
E-mail: bionlp_workshop_2006 at lanl dot gov

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Program, talks, and posters

09:00-10:30 Session 1: Linking NLP and biology
09:00-09:10 Welcome and introduction
09:10-09:30 Definitional-term semantics constrain both the lexical semantics and the lexicosyntactic patterns in definitional sentences.
Hong Yu and Ying Wei
09:30-09:50 Ontology-based natural language query processing for the biological domain.
Jisheng Liang, Thien Nguyen, and Kris Koperski
09:50-10:10 Term generalization and synonym resolution for biological abstracts: using the Gene Ontology as a source of expert knowledge.
Alona Fyshe and Duane Szafron
10:10-10:30 Integrating ontological knowledge and textual evidence in estimating gene and gene product similarity.
Antonio Sanfilippo, Christian Posse, Banu Gopalan, Stephen Tratz, and Michelle Gregory
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Session 2: Towards deeper biological literature analysis
11:00-11:20 A priority model for named entities.
Lorraine Tanabe and W. John Wilbur
11:20-11:40 Human gene name normalization using text matching with automatically extracted synonym dictionaries.
Haw-ren Fang, Kevin Murphy, Yang Jin, Jessica Kim, and Peter White
11:40-12:00 Integrating co-occurrence statistics with information extraction for robust retrieval of protein interactions from MEDLINE.
Razvan Bunescu, Raymond Mooney, Arun Ramani, and Edward Marcotte
12:00-12:20 SEROW: Adapting semantic role labeling for biomedical verbs: an exponential model coupled with automatically generated template features.
Tzong-Han Tsai, Wen-Chi Chou, Yu-Chun Lin, Wei Ku, Ying-Shan Su, Ting-Yi Sung, and Wen-Lian Hsu
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:40 Session 3: Exploring document properties
14:00-14:20 Generative content models for structural analysis of medical abstracts.
Jimmy Lin, Dina Demner-Fushman, Damianos Karakos, and Sanjeev Khudanpur
14:20-14:40 Exploring text and image features to classify images in bioscience literature.
Barry Rafkind, Minsuk Lee, Hong Yu, and Shih-Fu Chang
14:40-15:30 The Procter and Gamble Keynote Speech: Mining biomedical texts for disease-related pathways
Andrey Rzhetsky, Columbia University
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-17:30 Session 4: Insights from corpus analysis
16:00-16:20 Postnominal Prepositional Phrase Attachment in Proteomics.
Jonathan Schuman and Sabine Bergler
16:20-16:30 Wrap-up and discussion
16:30-18:00 Poster session

Posters

BioKI:Enzymes - an adaptable system to locate low-frequency information in full-text proteomics articles.
Sabine Bergler, Jonathan Schuman, Julien Dubuc, and Alexandr Lebedev
A graph-search framework for GeneId ranking.
William Cohen
Semi-supervised anaphora resolution in biomedical texts.
Caroline Gasperin
Using dependency parsing and probabilistic inference to extract relationships between genes, proteins and malignancies implicit among multiple biomedical research abstracts.
Ben Goertzel, Hugo Pinto, Ari Heljakka, Michael Ross, Cassio Pennachin, and Izabela Goertzel
Recognizing nested named entities in GENIA corpus.
Baohua Gu
Biomedical term recognition with the perceptron HMM algorithm.
Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Grzegorz Kondrak, and Colin Cherry
Refactoring corpora.
Helen L. Johnson, William A. Baumgartner Jr., Martin Krallinger, K. Bretonnel Cohen, and Lawrence Hunter
Rapid adaptation of POS tagging for domain specific uses.
John Miller, Michael Bloodgood, Manabu Torii, and Vijay Shanker
Extracting protein-protein interactions using simple contextual features.
Leif Arda Nielsen
Identifying experimental techniques in biomedical literature.
Meeta Oberoi, Craig A. Struble, and Sonia L. Sugg
A pragmatic approach to summary extraction in clinical trials.
Graciela Rosemblat and Laurel Graham
The difficulties of taxonomic name extraction and a solution.
Guido Sautter and Klemens Boehm
Summarizing key concepts using citation sentences.
Ariel Schwartz, Preslav Nakov, and Marti Hearst
Subdomain adaptation of a POS tagger with a small corpus.
Yuka Tateisi, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, and Jun'ichi Tsujii
Bootstrapping and evaluating named entity recognition in the biomedical domain.
Andreas Vlachos and Caroline Gasperin




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