summarization
BioASQ challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering
Submitted by Ion Androutsopoulos on 4 March 2013 - 5:11pmBioASQ challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering
(BioASQ workshop to be collocated with CLEF 2013 in Valencia, Spain on September 27, 2013)
Web site: http://bioasq.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/bioasq
The BioASQ challenge aims to push for a solution to the information access problem of biomedical experts. It will evaluate the ability of systems to perform various tasks in the biomedical QA process:
1. large-scale classification of biomedical documents onto ontology concepts (semantic indexing),
INLG 2012: EXTENDED deadline for short papers: Feb 29, 2012. Deadline for demos: Mar 7, 2012
Submitted by bdieugen on 15 February 2012 - 1:53amThe deadline for short paper submissions at the INLG 2012 conference has been extended to February 29, 2012, 11:59pm CST (-6 GMT). As previously announced, the deadline for demos will be on March 7, also 11:59pm CST. Short papers are allotted 4 pages, excluding references. Details on the submission process and downloadable style files can be found at http://www.nlp.cs.uic.edu/inlg2012/
The submission web site is: https://www.softconf.com/c/inlg2012/
Please submit your late breaking results on a variety of NLG topics, including, but not limited to:
INLG 2012: invited speakers, updated CFP, submission information for long and short papers (deadline Feb 10, 2012)
Submitted by bdieugen on 16 January 2012 - 5:10pmINLG 2012, the 7th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, will take place at Starved Rock State Park, Utica, IL, May 30-June 1, 2012.
Further details on the program, an updated CFP with submission
information and downloadable style files, and the full program
committee is now available at the conference web site
http://nlp.cs.uic.edu/inlg2012/
Highlights:
1. Invited speakers: Kathy McCoy, University of Delaware; and James Lester,
North Carolina State University
2. Submission web site: https://www.softconf.com/c/inlg2012/
Workshop "Biomedical Natural Language Processing", in conjunction with RANLP-2011
Submitted by Galia Angelova on 1 June 2011 - 2:26am- Applications
- Basic NLP techniques for biomedical text
- Concept recognition and normalization
- decision support systems
- Evaluation and testing
- Integration of free text and structured data mining
- Integration of NLP components into applications for secondary use of EHR data
- Knowledge representation and management
- Named entity recognition
- Non-English and multilingual language processing
- Ontologies and controlled vocabularies
- Patient-reported observations
- Relation extraction
- semantic role labeling
- summarization
CALL FOR PAPERS
ACL-HLT 2011 Workshop: Automatic Summarization for Different Genres, Media, and Languages
Submitted by Yang Liu on 3 April 2011 - 10:11amAutomatic summarization of written news has been an area of active research for over a decade now. A wide range of summarization approaches for news have been developed and tested on large reference datasets provided by the Document Understanding Conferences (DUC) and the current Text Analysis Conference (TAC), and both manual and automatic evaluation measures have been developed and validated for this genre.
ACL-HLT 2011 Workshop: Automatic Summarization for Different Genres, Media, and Languages
Submitted by Yang Liu on 8 January 2011 - 4:49pmACL-HLT 2011 Workshop: Automatic Summarization for Different Genres, Media, and Languages
Automatic summarization of written news has been an area of active research for over a decade now. A wide range of summarization approaches for news have been developed and tested on large reference datasets provided by the Document Understanding Conferences (DUC) and the current Text Analysis Conference (TAC), and both manual and automatic evaluation measures have been developed and validated for this genre.
