------- Apologies for multiple postings ------- =================== Preliminary 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 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 -- 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