[open-linguistics] [CfP] 2nd workshop on MultilingualBIO: Multilingual Biomedical Text Processing

Maite Melero maite.melero at upf.edu
Tue Jan 7 11:45:06 UTC 2020


[apologies for cross-postings; please help to disseminate]

Call for papers

2nd Workshop on MultilingualBIO: Multilingual Biomedical Text Processing

@LREC 2020, Marseille (France), Saturday, May 16 2020 (afternoon)

http://temu.bsc.es/multilingualbio2020/

The second edition of MultilingualBIO, at the LREC 2020 Conference
<https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/>, is a unique opportunity to promote
the development of biomedical text processing resources and components in
languages beyond English, exploring the use of novel methodological
advances, e.g. transfer-learning techniques such as contextual embeddings,
for a diversity of tasks in the domain, including machine translation.

In this workshop, we plan to address issues, such as the following (but not
restricted to):


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   Building of MT systems adapted to the biomedical domain.
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   Production of multilingual corpora in the biomedical domain.
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   Creation (and translation) of multilingual biomedical glossaries,
   ontologies and terminological resources
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   Application of transfer-learning techniques across tasks in the
   biomedical domain, such as contextual embeddings.
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   Extension of the coverage of the normative terminologies to languages
   other than English (e.g. ontologies from the Open Biomedical Ontology
   repository like HPO, LOINC, MEDRA, UMLS, SNOMED-CT, RxNorm etc).
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   Dealing with localization issues, including adaptation to local
   varieties of international languages (UK vs USA English, Spanish from Spain
   and Latin America or USA, etc.).
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   NLP and text mining applied to health, biomedicine and related domains.
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   Medical named entity recognition and grounding systems beyond English.



February 14, 2020: Paper submission deadline

March 13, 2020: Acceptance notifications

April 2, 2020: Camera-ready and final programme of Workshop Proceedings

Three types of submissions are invited:

- Research papers, describing original research; these can be either long
(6-8 pages, not including references) or short (3-4 pages, not including
references);

- Project notes, describing recent, ongoing or planned projects (2-4 pages
including references);

- Demonstration notes, accompanying demonstration of software, tools, or
systems (2-4 pages including references).

Organising Committee:

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   Maite Melero, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain.
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   Martin Krallinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain.
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   Marta Villegas, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain.
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   Jordi Armengol-Estapé, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain.


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   Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain.


Further details can be found in the workshop website
<http://temu.bsc.es/multilingualbio2020/>.

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Maite Melero
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maite-melero-48530913/
*Established Researcher*

*BSC-OTG del Plan de Impulso de las Tecnologías del Lenguaje *
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