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We are pleased to announce the upcoming BioNLP Shared Task, an information extraction task open to any interested participants. The task will be held in early 2013, and a workshop on the task is planned to be co-hosted with the ACL 2013 BioNLP workshop.
Sample data are now available at BioNLP Shared Task 2013 website:
2013.bionlp-st.org/Participation to the task will be open to all interested parties.
The BioNLP Shared Task series represents a community-wide trend in text-mining for biology toward fine-grained information extraction (IE). The two previous events, the BioNLP 2009 and 2011 shared task attracted wide attention, with numerous teams submitting final results. The task setup and data have since served as the basis of numerous studies and published event extraction systems and datasets. The BioNLP Shared Task 2013 (BioNLP-ST'13) follows the general outline and goals of the previous tasks. It identifies biologically relevant extraction targets and proposes a linguistically motivated approach to event representation. BioNLP-ST'13 tasks also covers many new hot topics in the biology domain that are close to biologist needs.
As in previous editions, manually annotated data will be provided for training, development and evaluation of the participating extraction methods.
The six BioNLP-ST 2013 event extraction tasks are
- [GE] Genia Event Extraction for NFkB knowledge base construction
- [CG] Cancer Genetics
- [PC] Pathway Curation
- [GRO] Corpus Annotation with Gene Regulation Ontology
- [RNB] Gene Regulation Network in Bacteria
- [BB] Microorganism biotope (semantic annotation by an ontology)
- Sample Data Release 23 October 2013
- Training Data Release 8 January 2013
- Test Data Release March 2013 (Tentative)
- Result Submission March 2013 (Tentative)
- Results Notification March 2013 (Tentative)
- Manuscript Submission April 2013 (Tentative)
- BioNLP Shared task 2013 workshop Summer 2013
- Web: 2013.bionlp-st.org/
- Mailing List: bionlp-st at bionlp-st.org