LINGUIST List 18.3336: Computational Ling/Singapore

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Sun Nov 11 2007 Calls: Computational Ling/Singapore Editor for this issue: Ania Kubisz <anialinguistlist.org>
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Directory 1. Jian Su, Languages in Biology and Medicine Message 1: Languages in Biology and Medicine
Date: 06-Nov-2007 From: Jian Su <sujiani2r.a-star.edu.sg> Subject: Languages in Biology and Medicine E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Languages in Biology and Medicine Short Title: LBM 2007 Date: 06-Dec-2007 - 07-Dec-2007 Location: Singapore, Singapore Contact Person: Jian Su Meeting Email: sujiani2r.a-star.edu.sg Web Site: http://lbm2007.biopathway.org/ Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 06-Dec-2007 Meeting Description The International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM) 2007 seeks to provide a renewed opportunity for interaction between language professionals with different methodological backgrounds. LBM was established in 2005 and the remit of this event remains highly relevant today. The symposium focuses on the languages that are in active use for biology and medicine. We are calling for original research papers on, but not limited to the topics listed below. Papers focusing on application aspects of languages in biology and medicine are also invited. - Natural language: text mining, retrieval and management; - Ontology language: ontology construction, extension and management; - Logic language: knowledge representation and induction; - Sequence language: RNA structure prediction, protein domain prediction; - Database language: database interface, query language; - Visualization language: information visualization, molecular visualization. LBM 2007 Call for Participation Registration is now open Registration for LBM 2007 is now open. Please go to the LBM 2007 website at http://lbm2007.biopathway.org and register and book your accommodation. Important Dates Hotel reservation deadline: November 15, 2007 Early registration deadline: November 15, 2007 Panel Discussion: December 7, 2007 Banquet: December 6, 2007 Symposium: December 6-7, 2007 Table of Contents 1. LBM 2007 in Biopolis, Singapore 2. Organizing Committee 3. Swissotel the Stamford Hotel Reservation Deadline 4. Lists of Accepted Papers 5. Acceptance Rates 6. Invited Speeches 7. Panel Discussion 1. LBM 2007 in Biopolis, Singapore The 2nd International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM) will be held at Matrix, Biopolis, Singapore, located near the Ministry of Education and on 30 Biopolis Street. The symposium banquet will take place on Thursday 6 December. The participants to LBM2007 are also welcome at the banquet for the International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW), as well as for the conference itself, to be held on December 3-5 back-to-back with LBM 2007. 2. Organizing Committee Steering Committee See-Kiong Ng, I2R, Singapore Jong C. Park, KAIST, Korea Limsoon Wong, NUS, Singapore General Chairs Jong C. Park, KAIST, Korea Limsoon Wong, NUS, Singapore Programme Committee Chairs Christopher J. O. Baker, I2R, Singapore Su Jian, I2R, Singapore Local Organizing Chair Rajaraman Kanagasabai, I2R, Singapore Programme Committee Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, UK Vlad Bajic, University of the Western Cape, South Africa Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA Christian Blaschke, Bioalma, Spain Anita Burgun, Universite de Rennes, France Werner Ceusters, Buffalo NY, USA Kevin B. Cohen, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, USA Nigel Collier, National Institute for Informatics, Japan Mark Craven, University of Wisconsin, USA Rebholz Dietrich, EMBL-EBI, UK Julian Gough, University of Bristol, UK Volker Haarslev, Concordia University, Canada Udo Hahn, Jena University, Germany Lynette Hirschman, MITRE, USA Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada Ewan Klein, Edinburgh University, UK Satoshi Kobayashi, University of Electro-Communications, Japan Michael Krauthammer, Yale University School of Medicine, USA Patrick Lambrix, Linköping University, Sweden Liu, Hong Fang, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA Yves Lussier, University of Chicago, USA Erik van Mulligen, Erasmus MC, Netherlands Jinah Park, Information & Communications University, Korea Tom Rindflesch, National Library of Medicine, USA Jasmin Saric, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Germany Neil Sarkar, Woods Hole, USA Stefan Schulz, Freiburg University Hospital, Germany Donia Scott, Open University, UK Hagit Shatkay, Queen's University, Canada Margaret Anne Storey, University Victoria, Canada Jun'ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan, University of Manchester, UK Alfonso Valencia, CNIO, Spain W. John Wilbur, NIH, USA Rene Witte, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Hong Yu, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI-CNRS, France 3. Swissotel the Stamford Hotel Reservation Deadline The deadline for conference-rate reservation in the Swissotel the Stamford has been extended to November 15, 2007. After this date the hotel can guarantee neither the accommodation nor the prices. For more information about the accommodation and reservations see page http://lbm2007.biopathway.org/Registration.htm . Please note that the delegates to LBM2007 can reserve their rooms by November 15, though the room reservations form for the hotel states that it should be sent before ''07 November, 2007''. 4. Lists of Accepted Papers Please see the lists of papers being accepted to the LBM special issue of BMC Bioinformatics and for long oral presentations and papers being accepted for short oral presentations at: http://lbm2007.biopathway.org/AcceptedPapers.htm. 5. Acceptance Rates Here are the numbers of submissions, accepted papers and counted acceptance rates: Papers being accepted to the LBM special issue of BMC Bioinformatics and for long oral presentations: 25.5% (12 out of 47) Papers for short oral presentations: 31.4% (11 out of 35) 6. Invited Speeches Three invited speeches will be offered at the symposium. The abstract and the short biography of each invited speaker is available at: http://lbm2007.biopathway.org/Speakers.htm. Invited Speakers: Olivier Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine, USA) Sophia Ananiadou (University of Manchester, UK) Patrick Lambrix (Linköpings Universitet, Sweden) 7. Panel Discussion The panel discussion will be offered on the second day of the symposium. Title: Biomedical Languae and Biomedical Knowledge: Emerging Synergies Chair: Jun-ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Japan) Panelists: Invited Speakers Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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