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BioLINK SIG: Linking Literature, Information and Knowledge for Biology The Annual Meeting of In Association with ISMB 2007, Vienna, Austria Thursday, July 19, 2007 With the increasing availability of textual information related to biology
including Medline abstracts and full-text journal articles, the field of
biomedical text mining has been rapidly maturing. It is concerned with using
techniques from natural language processing, information extraction and
information retrieval to automate knowledge discovery from biomedical text.
The BioLINK SIG meeting has been regularly held in association with the ISMB
conference since 2001. The SIG focuses on the development and application of
resources and tools for biomedical text mining. It is interdisciplinary in
nature, and brings researchers applying natural language processing, text
mining, information extraction and retrieval in the biomedical domain,
together with scientists from bioinformatics and biology.
The meeting includes invited talks, presentations of peer-reviewed
contributed papers, as well as a poster session. It 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. The
SIG solicits papers and talks that discuss text mining tools and their
application to biomedical research and to biological database curation,
examine the inter-relations between database curation tasks and text mining,
and the utility of existing resources - as well as the development of future
ones - to expedite progress in the interdisciplinary research field of
biomedical text-mining.
We anticipate a fruitful workshop that will facilitate discussion and
exchange of ideas, by bringing researchers applying natural language
processing, ontologies, text mining, information extraction and retrieval in
the biomedical domain, together with scientists from bioinformatics and
biology.
Information about last year's meeting, which was held jointly with the
BioOntologies SIG, can be found on the JBB06 web site.
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