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BioLINK SIG: Linking Literature, Information and Knowledge for Biology The Annual Meeting of In Association with ISMB 2008, Toronto, Canada Friday, July 18, 2008 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 together researchers applying natural language processing, text
mining, information extraction and retrieval in the biomedical domain,
with scientists from bioinformatics and biology.
The meeting includes invited talks, presentations of peer-reviewed
contributed papers, as well as a poster session. This year's SIG will focus on the theme of automated linkage of the literature to biological resources
in support of applications such as: automated indexing of the biomedical literature,
generation of structured digital abstracts and the use of text-mined data in
biology and bioinformatics pipelines.
To stimulate discussion, we will invite a set of "end users" to present
their applications and text mining needs, with a specific goal of encouraging
partnerships among the end users and the developers of text mining tools.
The SIG solicits papers that discuss current biological text-related needs, the challenges of meeting them, and the tools that may
help address them. Topics may include development and application of text-tools
for biomedical research and for biological database curation,
inter-relations between database curation and text mining, as well as
new tools, new applications and future directions in 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,can be found on the BioLINK07 web site.
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