Symposium Programme

  Sunday, 8 November Monday, 9 November Tuesday, 10 November
8:15   Registration  
30
45
9:00 Invited talk 1
Thérèse Vachon
Invited talk 2
Pierre Zweigenbaum
15
30
45
10:00 break break
15 Paper Session 2 Paper Session 4
30
45
11:00
15
30
45 Best paper award and wrap up
12:00 Registration Lunch
15 Lunch
30
45
1:00 Tutorial
Antonio Jimeno Yepes and Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
Bus excursion
15 Poster spotlight presentations
30
45 Poster session
2:00
15
30
45 break
3:00 Opening remarks
15 Paper Session 1
break
30 Paper Session 3
45
4:00
15
30
45
5:00
15  
30 Bus to symposium banquet
45
6:00  
15
30
45
7:00 Welcome party
15
30
45
8:00
15
30
45


Sunday, 8 November

12:00-1:00 Registration
1:00-2:45 Tutorial
Exploitation of Ontological Resources for Information Retrieval and Information Extraction
(Antonio Jimeno Yepes and Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann)
Session Chair: Jong C. Park
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-3:15 Opening remarks
3:15-5:15
Session 1: Event extraction
Session Chair: Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
3:15-3:45 * Event Extraction with Complex Event Classification using Rich Features
(Makoto Miwa, Rune Sætre, Jin-Dong Kim and Junichi Tsujii)
3:45-4:15 Biological Event Recognition with Textual Induction
(Yutaka Sasaki, Paul Thompson, John McNaught and Sophia Ananiadou)
4:15-4:45 Automatic Annotation by BioExcom for categorizing prior and new speculations in biological papers
(Julien Desclés, Motasem Alrahabi, Jean-Pierre Desclés and Antoine Blais)
4:45-5:15 * Analysis of syntactic and semantic features for fine-grained event-spatial understanding in outbreak news reports
(Hutchatai Chanlekha and Nigel Collier)
7:00- Welcome Party


Monday, 9 November

8:15-9:00 Registration
9:10-10:00 Invited talk 1
Thérèse Vachon
Session Chair: Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-12:15
Session 2: Identifying semantics
Session Chair: Nigel Collier
10:15-10:45 * The application of an ontology design pattern for functional abnormalities to phenotype ontologies and the extraction of an ontology of anatomical functions
(Robert Hoehndorf, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo and Janet Kelso)
10:45-11:15 * The Value of an In-Domain Lexicon in Genomics QA
(Yutaka Sasaki, John McNaught and Sophia Ananiadou)
11:15-11:45 Automatic Extraction of the Usage Information from the Component Words in Gene Ontology Terms to Enhance Consistency and Predictability
(Seung-Cheol Baek and Jong C. Park)
11:45-12:15 A Re-evaluation of Biomedical Named Entity - Term Relations
(Tomoko Ohta, Sampo Pyysalo, Jin-Dong Kim and Jun'ichi Tsujii)
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-1:45 Poster spotlight presentations
1:45-3:15 Poster session

A Thesaurus and an Application Ontology for the Juvenile Arthritis Domain
(Ernesto Jim´enez-Ruiz, Rafael Berlanga-Llavori, Victoria Nebot, Antonio Jimeno-Yepes and Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann)

Comparison of methods for topic template queries in the biomedical domain
(Antonio Jimeno-Yepes, Rafael Berlanga-Llavori and, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann)

Inference for bio-IE: GENIA meets EKOSS
(Jin-Dong Kim, Steven Kraines, Weisen Guo and Jun’ichi Tsujii)

ONER: Tool for Organization Named Entity Recognition from Affiliation Strings in PubMed Abstracts
(Siddhartha Jonnalagadda, Philip Topham and Graciela Gonzalez)

Bio-medical Term Extraction on Simple Rule Language
(Takashi Sinnou, Koichi Takeuchi and Nigel Collier)

Literature mining for protein acetylation
(Youngrae Kim, Hodong Lee and Gwan-Su Yi)

Session Chair: Nigel Collier
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-5:30
Session 3: Building resources
Session Chair: Fabio Rinaldi
3:30-4:00 Demystifying protein annotations: toward increasing the compatibility of different corpora
(Yue Wang, Jin-Dong Kim, Rune Saetre, Sampo Pyysalo, Tomoko Ohta and Jun'ichi Tsujii)
4:00-4:30 * The CALBC Silver Standard Corpus - Harmonizing multiple semantic annotations in a large biomedical corpus
(Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Antonio José Jimeno Yepes, Erik M. van Mulligen, Ning Kang, Jan Kors, David Milward, Peter Corbett and Udo Hahn)
4:30-5:00 * De-identifying Swedish Clinical Text - Refinement of a Gold Standard and Experiments with Conditional Random Fields
(Hercules Dalianis and Sumithra Velupillai)
5:00-5:30
5:30- Bus to symposium banquet


Tuesday, 10 November

9:10-10:00 Invited talk 2
Pierre Zweigenbaum
Session Chair: Jong C. Park
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45
Session 4: Information extraction
Session Chair: See-Kiong Ng
10:15-10:45 Enabling Recognition of Diseases in Biomedical Text with Machine Learning: Corpus and Benchmark
(Robert Leaman, Christopher Miller and Graciela Gonzalez)
10:45-11:15 Sentence Simplification Aids Protein-Protein Interaction Extraction
(Siddhartha Jonnalagadda and Graciela Gonzalez)
11:15-11:45 Effective Mining of Protein Interactions
(Fabio Rinaldi, Gerold Schneider, Kaarel Kaljurand and Simon Clematide)
11:45-12:00 Best paper award and wrap up
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00- Bus excursion


* invited for special issues (Journal of Biomedical Semantics and Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology)