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BioCreative Challenge workshop, Seville, Spain</span></h2>
<pre style="margin:0.1pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"> </span></pre><pre style="margin:0.1pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Home page: <a href="http://www.biocreative2015.org">http://www.biocreative2015.org</a><br>
Challenge tasks: <a href="http://www.biocreative.org/events/biocreative-v/CFP">http://www.biocreative.org/events/biocreative-v/CFP</a><br>
Workshop date: 9-11th Sept 2015</span></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Workshop format: Keynote speech, paper presentations,
poster and group discussions.</span></p>
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for multiple postings]</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">1. </span></b><b style><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="ES-TRAD">SCOPE</span></b><b style><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">BioCreative: Critical Assessment of Information
Extraction in Biology is a community-wide effort for evaluating text mining and
information extraction systems applied to the biological domain. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Built on the success of the previous BioCreative
Challenge Evaluations and Workshops (BioCreative I, II, II.5, III, 2012
workshop, and IV), the BioCreative Organizing Committee will host the
BioCreative V Challenge in Sevilla, Spain on September 9-11, 2015. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">2. TOPICS</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">This workshop invites proceedings papers and posters
of teams participating in the BioCreative V tracks. Additionally we invite also
posters on other topics related to biomedical text mining, information
retrieval and natural language processing. Topics of interest include:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">* <span style> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Development and integration of BioC compatible modules
that assist interaction database curation</span></p>
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Named entity recognition of chemical compounds and gene/protein mentions in
patents</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">*</span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"> Automatic detection of chemical/drugs and
diseases, and their relations in PubMed abstracts</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"> *<span style>
</span>Text mining solutions to develop and test novel approaches for relation
extraction in the context of pathway networks</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"> * Demonstration and evaluation of web-based
systems addressing user-defined tasks,<span class=""><ins cite="mailto:mkrallinger" datetime="2015-06-24T14:19"> </ins></span>evaluated
by curators on performance and usability<span class=""><ins cite="mailto:Hirschman,%20Lynette" datetime="2015-06-23T14:57"></ins></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"> * Demonstration of tools to extract metagenomics
metadata, including environment and habitat metadata</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"> * The importance and practical use of text
mining and information extraction systems for the extraction of biological and
biomedical annotations and integration to existing life sciences knowledgebases</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">* Demonstration of real world cases of crowdsourcing
and community annotations for generating Gold Standard annotations for text
mining and database annotations</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">* Use of text mining strategies to extract
clinically relevant information from public data and clinical records, with a
special focus on disease and symptom related concepts.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="ES-TRAD">Authors can submit short proceedings papers and posters describing
systems participating in BioCreative V tracks. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Additionally we
invite also posters on other topics related to biomedical text mining,
information retrieval and natural language processing.<span style> </span>Proceedings authors will be invited to
submit full papers for a special journal issue. Previous special issues:</span><a name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="ES-TRAD"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD"><a href="http://www.biocreative.org/resources/publications"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="EN-US">http://www.biocreative.org/resources/publications</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="ES-TRAD"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="ES-TRAD">3. DATES </span></b></p>
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Submission deadline: August 15th 2015 (check task timelines: <a href="http://www.biocreative.org/events/biocreative-v/CFP">http://www.biocreative.org/events/biocreative-v/CFP</a>)<br>
Workshop date: 9-11th September 2015</span><span style="color:windowtext;font-weight:normal" lang="ES-TRAD"></span></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri" lang="ES-TRAD">4. </span></b><b style><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">BIOCREATIVE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Cecilia Arighi, University of Delaware, USA</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Kevin Cohen, University of Colorado, USA</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Donald Comeau, National Center for Biotechnology
Information (NCBI), NIH, USA</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Juliane Fluck, Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and
Scientific Computing SCAI, Germany</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Rezarta Islamaj Dogan, National Center for
Biotechnology Information (NCBI), NIH, USA</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Lynette Hirschman, MITRE Corporation, USA</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Sun Kim, National Center for Biotechnology Information
(NCBI), NIH, USA</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Martin Krallinger, Spanish National Cancer Centre,
CNIO, Spain</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Zhiyong Lu, National Center for Biotechnology
Information (NCBI), NIH, USA</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Fabio Rinaldi, Institute of Computational Linguistics,
University of Zurich, Switzerland</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Centre,
CNIO, Spain</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Thomas Wiegers, North Carolina State University, USA</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">John Wilbur, National Center for Biotechnology
Information (NCBI), NIH, USA</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Cathy Wu, University of Delaware and Georgetown
University, USA</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Martin Krallinger,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">On behalf of the BioCreative organizing committee</span></p>
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