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Call for Papers: Linking Literature, Information and Knowledge for Biology Special Interest Group on Text Mining In association with ISMB 2007, Vienna, Austria The BioLINK SIG will take place on July 19, 2007. See http://www.cs.queensu.ca The meeting will focus on recent assessments, on standards for annotation both in biological databases and in biomedical text corpora, and on new tools for biomedical text mining. It will be interdisciplinary in nature, and bring researchers applying natural language processing, text mining, information extraction and retrieval in the biomedical domain, together with scientists from bioinformatics and biology. We solicit submissions from researchers working on all aspects of text-mining as they apply to bioinformatics and bio-medicine. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - New and/or validated tools in current use for biomedical text mining; - Methods, measures and corpora for testing and evaluating text mining in the biomedical domain; - Use of text mining to assist database curation; - Improvement in task-specific biomedical text mining by utilizing biomedical resources; - New directions in biomedical text mining, including new applications, new resources, and the incorporation of new types of data. The SIG provides an informal forum for presentation and discussion of current research in the field. The program will include presentations of short papers, posters and invited talks. We are inviting submission in two categories: 1) Short papers (up to 4 pages) 2) Poster abstracts (up to 350 words). Submissions, in PDF or MS word, should be sent, by the dates specified below, to: biolink07@cs.queensu.ca Authors should indicate the category for which their paper is to be considered (short paper or poster in the subject line), and whether they would like their work to be considered for an oral presentation. Important Dates: April 16: Short papers (up to 4 pages) due May 1: Poster Abstracts (up to 350 words) due May 18: Notification to authors May 25: Final version due To register for BioLINK SIG, use the ISMB'07 registration form (http://www.iscb.org/ismb2007/). Program Chairs: Christian Blaschke, Bioalma, Spain Hagit Shatkay, School of Computing, Queen's University, Canada Lynette Hirschman, MITRE Corp., USA Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Spain Contact and submission email: biolink07@cs.queensu.ca |