Papers being accepted to the LBM special issue of BMC Bioinformatics and for long oral presentations

1.

Automatic construction of rule-based ICD-9-CM coding systems
Richard Farkas and Gyorgy Szarvas

2.

Combining Gene Ontology and Argumentative Features for Automatic GeneRIF Extraction
Julien Gobeill and Patrick Ruch

3.

Automatic rewriting of patient records narratives
David Hardcastle and Catalina Hallett

4.

Assessment of diseases named entity recognition on a corpus of annotated sentences
Antonio Jimeno, Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, Vivian Lee, Sylvain Gaudan, Rafael Berlanga-Llavori and Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann

5.

Structuring an event ontology for disease outbreak detection
Ai Kawazoe, Hutchatai Chanlekha, Mika Shigematsu and Nigel Collier

6.

New challenges for Text Mining: Mapping between text and manually curated pathways
Kanae Oda, Jin-Dong Kim, Tomoko Ohta, Yuka Tateisi and Jun'ichi Tsujii

7.

Monitoring the Evolutionary Aspect of the Gene Ontology to Enhance Predictability and Usability
Jong C. Park, Tak-eun Kim and Jinah Park

8.

A Comparative Analysis of Five Protein-protein Interaction Corpora
Sampo Pyysalo, Antti Airola, Juho Heimonen, Jari Björne, Filip Ginter and Tapio Salakoski

9.

Normalizing biomedical terms by minimizing ambiguity and variability
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, John McNaught and Sophia Ananiadou

10.

Exploiting and Integrating Rich Features for Biological Literature Classification
Hongning Wang, Minlie Huang, Shilin Ding and Xiaoyan Zhu

11.

Identification of Transcription Factor Contexts in Literature using Machine Learning Approaches
Hui Yang and Goran Nenadic

12.

Text Mining to Find the Meaning of Medical Concept Correlations
Meliha Yetisgen-Yildiz and Wanda Pratt

 

Papers being accepted for short oral presentations

1.

Analysis and Enhancement of Conditional Random Fields Gene Mention Taggers in BioCreative II Challenge Evaluation
Yu-Ming Chang, Cheng-Ju Kuo, Han-Shen Huang, Yu-Shi Lin and Chun-Nan Hsu

2.

Decentralised Clinical Guidelines Modelling with Lightweight Coordination Calculus
Bo Hu, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, David Robertson and Paul Lewis

3.

Predicting Protein Interactions from Conserved Interactions and Publications
Samira Jaeger and Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann

4.

Two-Phase Chief Complaint Mapping to the UMLS Metathesaurus in Korean Electronic Medical Records
Bo-Yeong Kang

5.

The Integration of Multiple Feature Representations for Protein Protein Interaction Classification Task
Man Lan and Chew Lim Tan

6.

Causal Relation Extraction (CaRE) in Medical Discharge Summaries � a Hierarchical Rule-based Approach
Yuan Luo and Ozlem Uzuner

7.

Recognition of Multisentence n-ary Subcellular Localization Mentions in Biomedical Abstracts
Gabor Melli, Martin Ester and Anoop Sarkar

8.

Editing Medical Data Records with a Natural Language Interface
Richard Power and Christian Pietsch

9.

Syntactic features for protein-protein interaction extraction
Rune Saetre

10.

Classifier ensemble for biomedical document retrieval
Manabu Torii and Hongfang Liu

11.

Protein-Protein Interaction Abstract Identification with Contextual Bag of Words
Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, Hsieh-Chuan Hung, Hong-Jie Dai and Yi-Wen Lin