A call for papers in
Linking Biomedical Language,
Information and Knowledge
A special session within the
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2003
January 3-7, 2003
Kauai Marriott Resort and Beach Club
This session solicits papers on improving information access to the
biomedical literature and databases by leveraging the complementary resources
and techniques provided by the literature, databases, nomenclatures, and
ontologies. We particularly wish to focus on problems of importance to
the biology and biomedical research communities, where such techniques
have been demonstrated to provide a quantifiable improvement in performance.
The session will give preference to papers that leverage resources or techniques
from several areas. We will also give preference to papers describing systems
of demonstrated utility to end users. Possible topics include:
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Novel ways of combining text data mining and conventional bioinformatics
search techniques, including e.g., question answering, topic clustering,
or relevance feedback.
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Techniques for (partial) automation of database curation, consistency checking
and error detection in annotation of existing data bases.
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Use of patient data to discover or validate biological hypotheses.
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Evaluations of the utility of novel techniques over current methods of
information access.
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Extraction and organization of text-based information facilitated by ontologies
and data exchange standards.
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Creation or enrichment of structured resources (e.g., ontologies, databases)
through the use of text data mining and information extraction techniques.
Session co-chairs
Submission information
Submissions are due |
15 July 2002 |
Decisions are announced |
6 September 2002 |
Camera ready copy due |
23 September 2002 |
Poster abstracts due |
1 November 2002 |
Further information |
http://psb.stanford.edu |
All papers must be submitted to russ.altman@stanford.edu in electronic
format. The file formats we accept are: Adobe Acrobat
(*.pdf) and Microsoft Word documents (*.doc). Attached files should be
named with the last name of the first author (e.g. altman.pdf
or altman.doc). Hardcopy submissions or unprocessed
TEX or LATEX files will be rejected without review.
Each paper must be accompanied by a cover letter. The cover letter must
state the following:
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The email address of the corresponding author
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The specific PSB session that should review the paper or abstract
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The submitted paper contains original, unpublished results, and is not
currently under consideration elsewhere.
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All co-authors concur with the contents of the paper.
Submitted papers are limited to twelve (12) pages in our publication format.
Please format your paper according to instructions found at ftp://ftp-smi.stanford.edu/pub/altman/psb.
If figures can not be easily resized and placed precisely in the text,
then it should be clear that with appropriate modifications, the total
manuscript length would be within the page limit. Color pictures can be
printed at the expense of the authors. The fee is $500 per page of color
pictures, payable at the time of camera ready submission.