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2010 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP 2010)

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Thursday, July 15, 2010

9:00–9:15Opening Remarks
 Session 1: Extraction
9:15–9:40Two Strong Baselines for the BioNLP 2009 Event Extraction Task
Andreas Vlachos
9:40–10:05Recognizing Biomedical Named Entities Using Skip-Chain Conditional Random Fields
Jingchen Liu, Minlie Huang and Xiaoyan Zhu
10:05–10:30Event Extraction for Post-Translational Modifications
Tomoko Ohta, Sampo Pyysalo, Makoto Miwa, Jin-Dong Kim and Jun’ichi Tsujii
10:30–11:00Morning coffee break
 Session 2
11:–12:00Keynote speaker, W. John Wilbur: Text Mining and Intelligence
12:05–12:30Scaling up Biomedical Event Extraction to the Entire PubMed
Jari Björne, Filip Ginter, Sampo Pyysalo, Jun’ichi Tsujii and Tapio Salakoski
12:30–14:00Lunch break
 Session 3: Foundations
14:00–14:25A Comparative Study of Syntactic Parsers for Event Extraction
Makoto Miwa, Sampo Pyysalo, Tadayoshi Hara and Jun’ichi Tsujii
14:25–14:50Arguments of Nominals in Semantic Interpretation of Biomedical Text
Halil Kilicoglu, Marcelo Fiszman, Graciela Rosemblat, Sean Marimpietri and Thomas Rindflesch
 Session 4: High-level tasks
14:50–15:15Improving Summarization of Biomedical Documents Using Word Sense Disambiguation
Laura Plaza, Mark Stevenson and Alberto Díaz
15:30–16:00Afternoon coffee break
 Session 4: High-level tasks, continued
16:00–16:25Cancer Stage Prediction Based on Patient Online Discourse
Mukund Jha and Noemie Elhadad
16:25–16:50An Exploration of Mining Gene Expression Mentions and Their Anatomical Locations from Biomedical Text
Martin Gerner, Goran Nenadic and Casey M. Bergman
16:50–17:00Poster Boaster session and Conclusions
17:00–17:30Poster session
17:00–17:30Exploring Surface-Level Heuristics for Negation and Speculation Discovery in Clinical Texts
Emilia Apostolova and Noriko Tomuro
17:00–17:30Disease Mention Recognition with Specific Features
Md. Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury and Alberto Lavelli
17:00–17:30Extraction of Disease-Treatment Semantic Relations from Biomedical Sentences
Oana Frunza and Diana Inkpen
17:00–17:30Identifying the Information Structure of Scientific Abstracts: An Investigation of Three Different Schemes
Yufan Guo, Anna Korhonen, Maria Liakata, Ilona Silins, Lin Sun and Ulla Stenius
17:00–17:30Reconstruction of Semantic Relationships from Their Projections in Biomolecular Domain
Juho Heimonen, Jari Björne and Tapio Salakoski
17:00–17:30Towards Internet-Age Pharmacovigilance: Extracting Adverse Drug Reactions from User Posts in Health-Related Social Networks
Robert Leaman, Laura Wojtulewicz, Ryan Sullivan, Annie Skariah, Jian Yang and Graciela Gonzalez
17:00–17:30Semantic Role Labeling of Gene Regulation Events: Preliminary Results
Roser Morante
17:00–17:30Ontology-Based Extraction and Summarization of Protein Mutation Impact Information
Nona Naderi and René Witte
17:00–17:30Extracting Distinctive Features of Swine (H1N1) Flu through Data Mining Clinical Documents
Heekyong Park and Jinwook Choi
17:00–17:30Towards Event Extraction from Full Texts on Infectious Diseases
Sampo Pyysalo, Tomoko Ohta, Han-Cheol Cho, Dan Sullivan, Chunhong Mao, Bruno Sobral, Jun’ichi Tsujii and Sophia Ananiadou
17:00–17:30Applying the TARSQI Toolkit to Augment Text Mining of EHRs
Amber Stubbs and Benjamin Harshfield
17:00–17:30Integration of Static Relations to Enhance Event Extraction from Text
Sofie Van Landeghem, Sampo Pyysalo, Tomoko Ohta and Yves Van de Peer