CALL FOR POSTERS & DEMOS: Biomedical Text Mining and Collaboration 21-22 February 2008, Glasgow, Scotland Abstract Submission deadline: 28 January 2008 Prize for best student poster!

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In connection with the workshop Finding the Hidden Knowledge: Text mining for biology and medicine, to be held in Glasgow (Scotland) 21-22 February 2008, there will be a hosted poster and demo session with refreshments. The poster and demo session is open to interested authors from all sectors (e.g. research, industry, health). There will be a prize for the best student poster.

Call Details

Interested parties from all sectors (e.g. research, industry, health) are invited to submit posters or demos on text mining, methods which could be adapted for text mining, and aspects of biology and health that could benefit from text mining.

We invite posters on original work and work in progress, position posters, etc. Creativity and imagination are encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Approaches to information retrieval, extraction and summarisation for biomedical text
• Term identification and normalisation for biomedical text
• Incorporating knowledge, e.g. ontologies, into extraction systems
• POS tagging, parsing and shallow parsing for biomedical text

• Specific challenges for TM in the biomedical domain
• General vs. specific solutions for subdomains and subproblems
• Accessing information in full papers
• Accessing information in tables, figures and captions

• Building databases based on information published in textual form
• Extracting pathways from text and linking pathways to text
• Building and maintaining ontologies for the biomedical domain
• TM vs. hand curated databases and ontologies

• Interactive tools for annotating biomedical texts
• Interactive tools for database curation, ontology building
• Bootstrapping assistive tools from small amounts of text
• Unsupervised and partially supervised learning

• Difficulties and solutions in eliciting user requirements
• Reconciling annotation and curation
• User interface design for annotation and curation
• Incorporating TM into research and curation workflows

• Assessing impact of assistive technologies on the end task
• Impact of information extraction on research and curation
• Impact of summarisation on on research on curation
• Impact of extraction on ontology building and maintenance

Submissions

Abstracts should be in MSWord or PDF format and no longer than 300 words. The submission should include the title, authors, affiliation, contact details for the corresponding author, and the description of the poster (abstract). The posters chosen based on this abstract will be displayed at the workshop and included in a workshop booklet.

Please email submissions to fthk2008 at googlemail.com and indicate whether you are a student and wish to be considered for the prize for the best student poster. Submissions do not need to be anonymised.

Important Dates

• ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 28 January 2008
• Notification of acceptance: 4 February 2008
• Workshop Dates: 21-22 February 2008

Prize for Best Student Poster

There will also be a prize for the best student poster. Judges for the competition will be drawn from the invited speakers and panelists:

• Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining, University of Manchester
• Doug Armstrong, Edinburgh Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Edinburgh
• Wendy Bickmore, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
• Ted Briscoe, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
• Elizabeth Fairley, ITI Life Sciences
• William Hayes, Biogen Idec
• Lawrence Hunter, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
• Peter Jackson, Thomson Corporation
• Mark Liberman, Linguistic Data Consortium / University of Pennsylvania
• Tim Miller, Thomson Scientific
• John Pestian, Cincinnati Children's Hospital

Contact Information

Send email to: fthk2008 at googlemail.com