Submission instructions

Please submit your PDF paper or poster abstract via the ACL START site at https://www.softconf.com/acl08/ACL08-WS05/.

We do NOT require anonymous submissions. However, if you prefer to submit anonymously, the site will allow you to do so.

DO NOT dual-submit your paper to BioNLP 2008 and to any conference or journal which does not allow dual submissions. THIS INCLUDES ISMB. If you are doing a dual submission to BioNLP 2008 and to a conference which does allow dual submissions, please make a note of that on the first page.

ACL allows longer papers this year than in previous years---eight pages of text, and an additional page for references.

Two types of submissions are invited: full papers and poster abstracts. Submissions are due by 11:59 PM EST on March 21, 2008. Submit your paper or abstract via the ACL BioNLP 2008 site at https://www.softconf.com/acl08/ACL08-WS05/.

Full papers should not exceed eight (8) pages of text and one page 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 of 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. Ensure that you are *not* in A4 format. 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 ACL meeting website (http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/acl08/stylefiles.html). Submissions need not 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 2008 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, you should expect it to be rejected by ISMB. 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 2008 workshop paper to ISMB.

Authors are invited to submit expanded versions of their papers to a special issue to BMC Bioinformatics. Such papers will go through the normal BMC review process.

Note: BMC Bioinformatics is an open access journal. As such, submissions to a special issue bear a publication cost of £600 per paper regardless of the authors' institutional membership in BMC. Submission to the special issue is entirely voluntary. In order to get the special issue out in a timely fashion, we simply ask authors of accepted papers to notify us if they plan to submit an expanded version of their paper for the special issue.