2024Q3 Reports: SIGBioMed

MEMBERSHIP

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SIGBIOMED is ACL's special interest group for Biomedical Natural Language Processing. Membership currently stands at 229, slightly up from last year.

ORGANIZATION

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The term of the elected officers started in September, 2022 and is to end in 2025. The new elections are due in July 2025 and the nominations of the candidates in June 2025.

ACTIVITIES

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As in previous years, the SIG’s main public face was the BioNLP workshop, co-located with ACL events continuously since 2002. In 2023 it was associated with ACL. The workshop ran in hybrid mode and was very well attended both in-person and online. The same is planned for 2024. We have a confirmed Keynote presenter, Shared Tasks overviews and large poster sessions.

We held the first CL4Health workshop associated with LREC-COLING 2024. The workshop features four keynote presentations and attracted a diverse group of participants, and many newcomers to biomedical language processing. The workshop ran in hybrid mode and was attended by over 100 participants, primarily in-person.

We plan proposing BioNLP25 to be held in conjunction with ACL and CL4Health 2026.

FUNDS

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None received

WEBSITE and MAILING LIST

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We have a working web site that lists upcoming events of interest to our members and links to BioNLP proceedings.

We use the following mailing lists for announcements and discussions:

https://groups.google.com/g/bionlpinfo/members (current SIG list) https://groups.google.com/g/sigbiomed (legacy SIG list)

https://amia.org/community/working-groups/natural-language-processing