LINGUIST List 17.548

Sat Feb 18 2006

Confs: Discipline of Ling/Jena, Germany

Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows <kevinlinguistlist.org>

Directory         1.    Michael Poprat, 2nd International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine
Message 1: 2nd International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine
Date: 17-Feb-2006
From: Michael Poprat <michael.popratuni-jena.de>
Subject: 2nd International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine



2nd International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine Short Title: SMBM 2006


Date: 09-Apr-2006 - 12-Apr-2006 Location: Jena, Germany Contact: Michael Poprat Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://supreme.coling.uni-jena.de/content/blogcategory/32/103

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics

Meeting Description:

SMBM06 registration open

Second International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine (SMBM) April 9-12 2006 at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany

Registration is now available at http://supreme.coling.uni-jena.de/content/view/71/130

Please register early to receive lowest registration rates

Also book your hotel room now since the negotiated low conference rates expire mid-march. Just follow the link: http://supreme.coling.uni-jena.de/content/view/63/114

The second international symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine is organised by the EU Network of Excellence Semantic Mining (http://www.semanticmining.org/) and the Jena University Language and Information Engineering Laboratory. The aim of this symposium is to bring together the communities of molecular biology and genomics, chemo-informatics and pharma-informatics, text and data mining for biomedicine, medical informatics, and biological ontology design and engineering.

A tentative program is available at http://supreme.coling.uni-jena.de/content/view/70/135

Programme Committee Chair:

- Sophia Ananiadou (University of Manchester & National Centre for Text Mining, UK) - Juliane Fluck (SCAI, Fraunhofer, Germany)

Invited Talks:

- Martin Romacker (Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland): ''Insights from Inside - Targets for Text Mining in the Pharmaceutic Industry'' - Lynette Hirschman (MITRE, USA): ''Evaluating What Biologists Want: Designing Challenge Evaluations for Text Mining'' - Judith Blake (Jackson Lab, USA): ''Beyond the Data Deluge: Bio-Ontologies and Biomedical Research''

Tutorials:

- Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (EBI) & Jin-Dong Kim (U Tokyo): Text Mining - Alexander Morgan (MITRE) & M. Krallinger (CNB/CNIO): Evaluation of Text Mining Systems - Robert Stevens (U Manchester): Ontologies in the Life Sciences - Steffen Staab (U Koblenz): Ontologies and the Semantic Web - Stefan Schuster (JCB): Bioinformatics I/Bioinformatics II

http://supreme.coling.uni-jena.de/content/view/73/103

Symposium web page: http://supreme.coling.uni-jena.de/content/blogcategory/32/103