A call for papers in

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:

• Novel ways of combining text data mining and conventional bioinformatics search techniques, including e.g., question answering, topic clustering, or relevance feedback.
• Techniques for (partial) automation of database curation, consistency checking and error detection in annotation of existing data bases.
• Use of patient data to discover or validate biological hypotheses.
• Evaluations of the utility of novel techniques over current methods of information access.
• Extraction and organization of text-based information facilitated by ontologies and data exchange standards.
• Creation or enrichment of structured resources (e.g., ontologies, databases) through the use of text data mining and information extraction techniques.

 

Session co-chairs

• Carol Friedman, Columbia University

friedman@dmi.columbia.edu
• Lynette Hirschman, MITRE

lynette@mitre.org
• Robin McEntire, GlaxoSmithKline

Robin_A_McEntire@sbphrd.com
• Cathy Wu, Georgetown University Medical Center

wuc@georgetown.edu

Submission information

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:

• The email address of the corresponding author
• The specific PSB session that should review the paper or abstract
• The submitted paper contains original, unpublished results, and is not currently under consideration elsewhere.
• All co-authors concur with the contents of the paper.