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Call for Papers
BioNLP 2009
A NAACL HLT 2009 Workshop
Boulder, CO June 4-5, 2009
Workshop submissions due: March 12, 2009, 11:59 PM Eastern US
Continuing a successful series of annual BioNLP workshops at ACL and NAACL
starting in 2002, and in accordance with the ACL SIGBIOMED 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.
We especially encourage submissions on:
- Entity identification and normalization for a broad range
of semantic categories
- Ontologies and knowledge bases in BioNLP
- Extraction of complex relations
- The economics of text mining and database curation
- Processing of various text and document types (clinical narrative,
gray literature, blogs, email)
- Resources and novel strategies for system testing and evaluation
- Shared tasks in the biomedical domain
- Test suites and corpora for BioNLP
- Quantifying utility to end-users
- Portability for non-developers
- Summarization
- Question-answering
- Full text and figures
- Practical applications of NLP in the biomedical domain
For the first time, there will be a shared task associated with this year's
BioNLP meeting. Results of this shared task on bio-event extraction will be
presented during the second day of the BioNLP09 workshop. Information on the
shared task is available at
http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/GENIA/SharedTask/.
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: Thursday, March 12, 2009
Notification of acceptance: Monday, April 6, 2009
Camera-ready copy due from authors: Monday, April 20, 2009
Workshop: June 4, 2009
Shared task presentations: June 5, 2009
Submission instructions: See the submissions page.
- Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, University of Colorado School of Medicine
- Dina Demner-Fushman, US National Library of Medicine
- Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining
and University of Manchester, UK
- John Pestian, Computational Medicine Center, Cincinnati Children's
Hospital and Medical Center
- Jun-ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan
and University of Manchester, UK
- Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh, UK
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