[BBC] Workshop on Advances in Bio Text Mining : Preliminary Call for Abstracts

[Sofie Van Landeghem]

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Preliminary Call for Abstracts
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Workshop BioTM-2010
Advances in Bio Text Mining

May 10-11, 2010, Ghent, Belgium

http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/BioTM2010/index.html

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Abstracts are invited for the two-day workshop to be held in Ghent on 
the 10th and 11th of July 2010.

Text mining has become indispensible in many biological and biomedical 
sciences. Having to keep up with an increasing number of publications, 
text mining techniques enable retrieval and analysis of large amounts of 
documents in a fully automated fashion. They allow for extraction of 
facts described in the literature that have not yet been recorded in 
databases, thus providing a necessary tool to obtain a complete overview 
of all available knowledge.

Recently, the application of text mining and natural language processing 
techniques to the biological and medical sciences has recieved 
increasing interest. In addition to many new workshops and conferences 
arising in this domain, recently also a number of community-wide tasks 
were conducted to benchmark text mining techniques on specific 
challenges (e.g. BioCreative, BioNLP Shared Task, ...).

By discussing the latest developments and potentially new applications 
in text mining amongst scientists in both academia and industry, this 
workshop aims to provide a broad view on text mining tools in biology 
and biomedicine. We are reaching out to a broad public, including 
researchers with an interest in text mining but with little or no 
experience in this domain. To this end, the workshop will start with an 
extensive tutorial on text mining in the bio-sciences, providing 
sufficient background knowledge for novices.

Next, a number of keynote talks will be given by leading scientists, 
presenting the latest advances in the field. Furthermore, participants 
are highly encouraged to submit an abstract describing their own work. 
They will be given the opportunity to present this work in 5min flash 
presentations, as well as to present a poster during the coffee and 
lunch breaks.

Finally, we plan on having a round-table discussion about the broader 
applicability of text-mining tools in the biological sciences, trying to 
bridge the gap between theoretical algorithms and experimental work.

SCOPE

Submissions should present work related to any aspect of biomedical text 
mining and bioinformatics. Additionally, we strongly encourage 
submissions that describe shortcomings of current existing techniques, 
tools, or resources, in order to detect problematic issues and work 
towards their improvement.


SUBMISSIONS

Participants are encouraged to submit a poster to the workshop in order 
to present their work to the audience. Posters will be first introduced 
in a five minute bullet talk and then they will be presented in a poster 
session. Submitted posters will be reviewed by the organising committee. 
Submission is blind.

An abstract of the poster of maximum 500 words should be submitted to 
the following e-mail address in pdf format: biotm2010 at gmail dot com .


IMPORTANT DATES

1  April 2010        Submission deadline
15 April 2010        Notification of acceptance
10-11 May 2010    Workshop in Ghent

ORGANISATION / PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Yvan Saeys
Sofie Van Landeghem

Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics group
VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology
Ghent University
Belgium

Walter Daelemans
Roser Morante
Vincent Van Asch

CLiPS - Text Mining Group
Faculty of Arts
University of Antwerp
Belgium

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Sofie Van Landeghem
PhD Student
VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University
Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics
Technologiepark 927, 9052 Gent, BELGIUM
Tel: +32 (0)9 331 36 95                        fax:+32 (0)9 3313809
Website: http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be

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