Call for Papers

ACM TALIP Journal <http://www.acm.org/pubs/talip>

Special Issue on Text Mining and Management in Biomedicine

Paper submission deadline is extended to December 30th, 2004. 


Aim: There is currently a heightened growth of attention to the use 
of natural language processing techniques for text mining and 
management in biology and medicine. Researchers in the field have 
been able to publish their work through conferences and workshops, 
starting from the series of NLP sessions in PSB'00, PSB'01, and 
PSB'02, followed by ACL'03 Workshop on NLP in Biomedine, 
IJCNLP'04 Workshop on Text Mining in Biomedicine, and COLING'04 
Workshop on BioNLP/NLPBA. If we include smaller-scale workshops 
and forums, the interest of people in the issue at hand is certainly 
unprecedented. There are however not many places that are
dedicated to hosting a collection of high-quality papers that are 
more mature than conference/workshop papers. It is thus 
extremely timely for TALIP to offer this special issue. 


Scope: Contributions should discuss text mining and management
in biomedicine, including, but not limited to: 

* Text Mining
* Information Extraction
* Named Entity Recognition
* Dynamic Terminology Management
* Integration with Non-Textual Resources
* Management of Biomedical Databases/Ontologies
* Visualization for Knowledge Discovery


Submission Guideline: All submissions are handled electronically. 
Please submit papers in postscript with a cover letter BOTH to 
Gary Geunbae Lee (gblee@postech.ac.kr) and Jong C. Park 
(park@cs.kaist.ac.kr). See TALIP's submission page for more
detailed style guidelines 
(http://www.acm.org/pubs/talip/authors.html#SUBMISSIONS). 


Important Dates: 

Please refer to http://isoft.postech.ac.kr/~tmmb for further information.

Submission received (revised):    December 30th, 2004
Papers reviewed (revised):         February 12th, 2005
Revised papers received:          March 15th, 2005
Revised papers checkup:          March 30th, 2005
Camera-ready version received:  April 30th, 2005


Program Committee:

Sophia Ananiadou (U. of Salford, UK)
William Back (UMIST, UK)
Nigel Collier (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Su Jian (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Goran Nenadic (UMIST, UK)
See-Kiong Ng (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
James Pustejovsky (Brandeis U., USA)
Hae Chang Rim (Korea U., South Korea)
Andrey Rzhetsky (Columbia U., USA)
Yuka Tateishi (CREST/JST & U. of Tokyo, Japan)
Junichi Tsujii (U. of Tokyo, Japan)
Alfonso Valencia (CNB, Spain)
Bonnie Webber (U. of Edinburgh, UK)
Guodong Zhou (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Pierre Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, INaLCO & INSERM, France)


Guest Editors:

Jong C. Park, Associate Professor, KAIST, South Korea    
        http://nlp.kaist.ac.kr/~park 
Gary Geunbae Lee, Professor, POSTECH, South Korea    
        http://isoft.postech.ac.kr/~gblee 
Limsoon Wong, Deputy Executive Director (Research), 
        Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore       
        http://research.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/~limsoon