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Preliminary Call for Abstracts
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Workshop BioTM-2010
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Advances in Bio Text Mining
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May 10-11, 2010, Ghent, Belgium
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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.
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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.
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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, ...).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SCOPE
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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.
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SUBMISSIONS
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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.
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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
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IMPORTANT DATES
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1 April 2010 Submission deadline
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15 April 2010 Notification of acceptance
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10-11 May 2010 Workshop in Ghent
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ORGANISATION / PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Yvan Saeys
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Sofie Van Landeghem
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Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics group
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VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology
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Ghent University
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Belgium
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Walter Daelemans
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Roser Morante
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Vincent Van Asch
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CLiPS - Text Mining Group
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Faculty of Arts
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University of Antwerp
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Belgium
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</span>Sofie Van Landeghem
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PhD Student
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VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University
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Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics
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Technologiepark 927, 9052 Gent, BELGIUM
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Tel: +32 (0)9 331 36 95 fax:+32 (0)9 3313809
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Website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be">http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be</a>
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