------- Apologies for multiple postings ------- ========================= Second Call for Abstracts ========================= Workshop BioTM-2010: Advances in Bio Text Mining May 10-11, 2010, Ghent, Belgium http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/BioTM2010/index.html ============================================================ Abstracts are invited for the two-day workshop to be held in Ghent on the 10th and 11th of May 2010. Participants are encouraged to submit an extended abstract to the workshop. Authors of selected abstracts will present their work in a five minute bullet talk and their posters will be presented in a poster session. Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the organising committee. The best abstracts will be published in an abstract supplement of BMC Bioinformatics (http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbioinformatics/). Submission deadline: April 1, 2010. ============================================================ The program of the workshop includes: - an extensive tutorial on Bio Text Mining by Martin Krallinger - invited talks by leading scientists in the field: Sampo Pyysalo, Kevin Cohen and Filip Ginter - invited talks by experienced scientists from industry: Jean-Marc Neefs, Luc Dehaspe and Maté Ongenaert ============================================================ 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. ============================================================ SUBMISSIONS: 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: INSTRUCTIONS An abstract of maximum 400 words with at most 1 table or figure should be submitted to the following e-mail address in pdf format: biotm2010 at gmail dot com Detailed formatting instructions can be found at http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/BioTM2010/call.html Submission is blind. ============================================================ IMPORTANT DATES 1 April 2010 Submission deadline 15 April 2010 Notification of acceptance 30 April 2010 Camera-ready abstracts due 10-11 May 2010 Workshop in Ghent ============================================================ ORGANISATION / PROGRAM COMMITTEE Yvan Saeys Thomas Abeel 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 -- ================================================================== Dr. Yvan Saeys, PhD DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY Fax:32 (0)9 331 38 09 BIOINFORMATICS TEAM Tel:32 (0)9 331 36 95 GHENT UNIVERSITY, Technologiepark 927, B-9052 Gent, Belgium Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie VIB mailto:yvan.saeys@ugent.be http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/ http://www.psb.ugent.be/~yvsae/ ==================================================================