BioNLP 2023

BIONLP 2021 @ NAACL 2021

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: March 20, 2021 11:59 PM Eastern US https://www.softconf.com/naacl2021/bionlp21/
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2021
Camera-ready copy due from authors: April 26, 2021
Workshop: June 11, 2021

Shared Task

MEDIQA 2021 The second edition of the MEDIQA challenge collocated with the BioNLP 2021Workshop focuses on summarization in the medical domain with three tasks:

Consumer health question summarization
Multi-answer summarization
Radiology report summarization

Please check the website for details on the tasks, datasets, and submission guidelines: https://sites.google.com/view/mediqa2021

Submission Types & Requirements

Following the previous conferences, BioNLP 2021 will be open for two types of submissions: long and short papers. Please use tNAACL instructions and templates: https://2021.naacl.org/calls/style-and-formatting/ The submission site is now available at https://www.softconf.com/naacl2021/bionlp21/

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW AND SCOPE

The BioNLP workshop associated with the ACL SIGBIOMED special interest group has established itself as the primary venue for presenting foundational research in language processing for the biological and medical domains. Despite, or maybe due to reaching maturity, the field of Biomedical NLP continues getting stronger. BioNLP welcomes and encourages inclusion and diversity. BioNLP truly encompasses the breadth of the domain and brings together researchers in bio- and clinical NLP from all over the world. The workshop will continue presenting work on a broad and interesting range of topics in NLP.

The active areas of research include, but are not limited to:

Entity identification and normalization (linking) for a broad range of semantic categories
Extraction of complex relations and events
Discourse analysis
Anaphora/coreference resolution
Text mining / Literature based discovery
Summarization
Question Answering
Resources and novel strategies for system testing and evaluation
Infrastructures for biomedical text mining / Processing and annotation platforms
Translating NLP research to practice
Explainable models for biomedical NLP
Multi-modal models for biomedical NLP
Getting reproducible results
BioNLP research in languages other than English

Organizers

  Dina Demner-Fushman, US National Library of Medicine
  Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, University of Colorado School of Medicine
  Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK
  Jun-ichi Tsujii, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan and University of Manchester, UK

Dual submission policy

Papers may NOT be submitted to the BioNLP 2021 workshop if they are or will be concurrently submitted to another meeting or publication.