[BiO BB] LBM2007 --- 2nd call for papers

[Limsoon Wong]

2nd International Symposium on
Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM 2007)
6-7 December 2007 @ Biopolis, Singapore
(http://lbm2007.biopathway.org/)
 
Language is a powerful tool that in its many manifestations is a system,
used for communication, comprising a finite set of arbitrary symbols and a
set of rules (or grammar) by which the manipulation of these symbols is
governed. In biology and medicine, the importance of languages used to
represent knowledge, communicate and query information is immense. Likewise
auxiliary tasks such as translation, summarization and information
extraction play important roles supporting scientific research. The
automation of such tasks has significantly advanced knowledge discovery in
biomedicine.

Incumbent technologies that discover, read and process language are
continually stretched by the vigorous demands of bio-medical scientists and
there is the continual need and incentive for language techniques to evolve.
Despite this, the distinct communities involved in language processing
rarely borrow from one another or look over the fence to see what other
approaches are in use. And yet synergistic interactions across
methodological disciplines and across different topics are frequently the
harbingers of revolutionary technologies. In this context, it is imperative
that we adopt diversification, more lateral and creative interaction between
language professionals.

The International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM) 2007
seeks to provide a renewed opportunity for interaction between language
professionals with different methodological backgrounds. LBM was established
in 2005 and the remit of this event remains highly relevant today. The
symposium focuses on the languages that are in active use for biology and
medicine. We are calling for original research papers on, but not limited to
the topics listed below. Papers focusing on application aspects of languages
in biology and medicine are also invited.

- Natural language: text mining, retrieval and management; 
- Ontology language: ontology construction, extension and management; 
- Logic language: knowledge representation and induction; 
- Sequence language: RNA structure prediction, protein domain prediction; 
- Database language: database interface, query language; 
- Visualization language: information visualization, molecular visualization


LBM2007 will consist of oral paper and poster presentation, invited speeches
and a panel discussion. In addition to on-line conference proceedings, oral
paper presentations will be published in BMC Bioinformatics and receive a
MEDLINE citation.

The symposium is co-located with the 18th International Conference on Genome
Informatics (GIW 2007), which will be held in Singapore from December 3 to
5, 2007.
 
Submission of Papers
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Submission should follow BMC instructions for authors which could be found
at http://lbm2007.biopathway.org/PaperSubmission and should not exceed 14
pages including references. Additional pages could be given to figures and
tables.

Paper review will be double blind, so papers should not include authors’
names and affiliations. Self-references are to be avoided—instead of "As we
showed in Smith et al. 1999...", say "As Smith et al. 1999 showed...." Paper
submission software will allow authors to enter full author information
separately. The paper submission site is http://www.easychair.org/LBM2007.
Manuscripts must be submitted no later than September 9, 2007.
 
Important Dates
===============
Paper submission due: September 9, 2007
Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2007
Camera ready due: November 1, 2007
LBM 2007 Conference: December 6-7, 2007 
 
Steering Committee
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See-Kiong Ng, NTU & I2R, Singapore
Jong C. Park, KAIST, South Korea
Limsoon Wong, NUS, Singapore
 
General Chairs 
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Jong C. Park, KAIST, South Korea
Limsoon Wong, NUS, Singapore
 
Programme Committee Chairs
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Christopher J. O. Baker, I2R, Singapore
Su Jian, I2R, Singapore
 
Local Organizing Chair
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Rajaraman Kanagasabai, I2R, Singapore
 
Programme Committee
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Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, UK
Vlad Bajic, University of the Western Cape, South Africa 
Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA 
Christian Blaschke, Bioalma, Spain
Anita Burgun, Universite de Rennes, France 
Werner Ceusters, Buffalo NY, USA 
Kevin B. Cohen, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, USA 
Nigel Collier, National Institute for Informatics, Japan 
Mark Craven, University of Wisconsin, USA 
Rebholz Dietrich, EMBL-EBI, UK 
Julian Gough, University of Bristol, UK 
Volker Haarslev, Concordia University, Canada 
Udo Hahn, Jena University, Germany 
Lynette Hirschman, MITRE, USA 
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada 
Ewan Klein, Edinburgh University, UK 
Satoshi Kobayashi, University of Electro-Communications, Japan 
Michael Krauthammer, Yale University School of Medicine, USA 
Patrick Lambrix, Linköping University, Sweden 
Liu, Hong Fang, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA 
Yves Lussier, University of Chicago, USA 
Erik van Mulligen, Erasmus MC, Netherlands 
Jinah Park, Information & Communications University, Korea 
Tom Rindflesch, National Library of Medicine, USA 
Jasmin Saric, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Germany 
Neil Sarkar, Woods Hole, USA
Stefan Schulz, Freiburg University Hospital, Germany 
Donia Scott, Open University, UK 
Hagit Shatkay, Queen's University, Canada 
Margaret Anne Storey, University Victoria, Canada
Jun'ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan, University of Manchester, UK
Alfonso Valencia, CNIO, Spain 
W. John Wilbur, NIH, USA 
Rene Witte, University of Karlsruhe, Germany 
Hong Yu, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA 
Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI-CNRS, France
 
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please contact:
e-mail: lbm2007 at biopathway.org
Website: http://lbm2007.biopathway.org/