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Linking Biological Literature, Ontologies and Databases

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Friday, June 24, 2005

8:30–8:45Opening Remarks
8:45–9:10Weakly Supervised Learning Methods for Improving the Quality of Gene Name Normalization Data
Ben Wellner
9:10–9:30Adaptive String Similarity Metrics for Biomedical Reference Resolution
Ben Wellner, José Castaño and James Pustejovsky
9:35–10:00Unsupervised Gene/Protein Named Entity Normalization Using Automatically Extracted Dictionaries
Aaron Cohen
10:00–10:30Coffee Break
10:30–11:15Invited Talk by Judi Blake
11:20–11:45A Machine Learning Approach to Acronym Generation
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Sophia Ananiadou and Jun’ichi Tsujii
12:00–13:00Lunch
13:00–13:15Searching for high-utility text in the biomedical literature
H. Shatkay, A. Rzhetsky and W.J. Wilbur
13:15–13:40MedTag: A Collection of Biomedical Annotations
Lawrence H. Smith, Lorraine Tanabe, Thomas Rindflesch and W. John Wilbur
13:45–14:10Corpus Design for Biomedical Natural Language Processing
K. Bretonnel Cohen, Lynne Fox, Philip V. Ogren and Lawrence Hunter
14:10–14:25A Cross-Domain Application of Natural Language Processing in Biology
I. Chiu and L.H. Shu
14:30–15:00Coffee Break
15:00–15:15Functional Annotation of Genes Using Hierarchical Text Categorization
S. Kiritchenko, S. Matwin and A.F. Famili
15:15–15:30Automatic Highlighting of Bioscience Literature
H. Wang, S. Bradshaw and M. Light
15:30–15:55Using Biomedical Literature Mining to Consolidate the Set of Known Human Protein-Protein Interactions
Arun Ramani, Razvan Bunescu, Raymond Mooney and Edward Marcotte
15:55–16:20IntEx: A Syntactic Role Driven Protein-Protein Interaction Extractor for Bio-Medical Text
Syed Toufeeq Ahmed, Deepthi Chidambaram, Hasan Davulcu and Chitta Baral
16:20–16:50Concluding discussion
16:50–17:20Poster Boasters
17:20–18:30Poster Session