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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 May 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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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.sa...@ugent.be
http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/
http://www.psb.ugent.be/~yvsae/
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