CFP

A special session within the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2003 January 3-7, 2003 Kauai Marriott Resort and Beach Club

This session solicits papers on improving information access to the biomedical literature and databases by leveraging the complementary resources and techniques provided by the literature, databases, nomenclatures, and ontologies. We particularly wish to focus on problems of importance to the biology and biomedical research communities, where such techniques have been demonstrated to provide a quantifiable improvement in performance. The session will give preference to papers that leverage resources or techniques from several areas. We will also give preference to papers describing systems of demonstrated utility to end users. Possible topics include:

• Novel ways of combining text data mining and conventional bioinformatics search techniques, including e.g., question answering, topic clustering, or relevance feedback.

• Techniques for (partial) automation of database curation, consistency checking and error detection in annotation of existing data bases.

• Use of patient data to discover or validate biological hypotheses.

• Evaluations of the utility of novel techniques over current methods of information access.

• Extraction and organization of text-based information facilitated by ontologies and data exchange standards.

• Creation or enrichment of structured resources (e.g., ontologies, databases) through the use of text data mining and information extraction techniques.

Carol Friedman, Columbia University friedman@dmi.columbia.edu

Lynette Hirschman, MITRE lynette@mitre.org

Robin McEntire, GlaxoSmithKline Robin_A_McEntire@sbphrd.com

Cathy Wu, Georgetown University Medical Center wuc@georgetown.edu

Submissions are due 15 July 2002

Further information http://psb.stanford.edu