Extraction of Structured Information from Texts
in the Biomedical Domain

Call for Papers

ESIT-BioMed 2010

Workshop in Association with ICCS'10

The focus of this workshop is on modeling, extracting, structuring, analyzing and exploring the semantics of biomedical texts. ESIT-BioMed 2010 deals with information extraction for biomedicine in broad sense, including scientific and clinical free-text as well as health-related web resources within one or many languages. Important aspect is structuring of the extracted data and knowledge chunks: in databases and conceptual repositories, in hospital information systems and specific application-tailored archives.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Natural language processing techniques for discovery of entities and their features, discovery of relations and temporal dependencies between entities and events, and anaphoric references discovery in biomedical texts;
• Multi-lingual information extraction;
• Terminology/ontology biomedical term mapping, with assessment of accuracy of recognition of nomenclature labels for major medical classifications – ICD, SNOMED, ATC Classification System etc;
• Integrated knowledge representation and management of scientific and clinical free-text data, including KR formalisms (e.g. OWL, RDF, Annotation Schemas, etc.) that enable the creation of machine-processable descriptions of health-related web resources;
• Knowledge management technologies that enable interoperability of biomedical data repositories and data exchange formats;
• Tools for exploring extracted data from biomedical texts

Submission Details:

Papers are limited to 14 pages in Springer's LNCS format. We recommend the use of LaTeX2e for the final version. For more details see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs.

Papers should be submitted electronically as PDF files to the Workshop Co-chair Heather D. Pfeiffer at hpfeiffe AT nmsu DOT edu. The language of the conference will be English.

Important Dates:

• Author and abstract deadline: 7 June 2010
• Submission deadline extended: 15 June 2010
• Notification of acceptance: 25 June 2010
• Camera-ready copy due from authors: 30 June 2010
• Workshop: either 26 or 27 of July 2010

Review and multiple submission policy

All submissions will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings. It is expected that the workshop proceedings will be made available via the online publisher CEUR.

Authors are invited to submit papers describing both theoretical and practical research outcomes. Papers accepted or under review by other conferences or journals will not be acceptable as a final submissions to ESIT-BioMed 2010. It is the authors' responsibility to notify the organizers in a separate email to Heather D. Pfeiffer at hpfeiffe AT nmsu DOT edu, to inform them that the paper might be withdrawn depending on the selection at some other event.