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Semantics-enabled Biomedical Literature Analytics (SeBiLAn2021)
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http://www.sebilanworkshop.com/
Joint with The Web Conference 2021 (the International World Wide
Web
(WWW2021) Conference)
Ljubljana, Slovenia April 2021 (Online)
https://www2021.thewebconf.org
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Important Dates
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Submission deadline: February 1, 2021 *February 7, 2021*
Acceptance notifications: February 20, 2021
Source files and Camera-ready PDFs: March 1, 2021
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The main objective of this workshop is to bring together
researchers from
Web search, semantic Web, and biomedical communities, to present
and
discuss the latest methods and results in biomedical information
and
knowledge representation, integration, and retrieval. Given the
fact that
searching and retrieving all studies that address a research
question is
one of the initial and main important tasks in devising a
systematic
review, we also aim at investigating the application of semantics
and Web
search in creating biomedical systematic literature review.
Researchers in the biomedical community have access to a
tremendous amount
of information (e.g. MEDLINE, the major database for biomedical
research,
has more than 26 million references to journal articles), which is
a mixed
blessing. On the one hand, existing biomedical data resources can
lead to
information overload,i.e., it is hardly possible for researchers
to keep
pace with available biomedical information on the Web or in
biomedical
knowledge bases. On the other hand, the huge amount of biomedical
information can act as valuable sources for knowledge discovery
and
learning algorithms. This workshop will explore both sides of the
coin: we
are interested in exploring effective solutions for searching over
biomedical literature based on the knowledge extracted from
biomedical
sources. Effective search helps researchers explore the literature
more
conveniently, and hence helps to reduce the impact of information
overload.
In addition, knowledge-based search systems need mechanisms for
structured,
semantic-rich representation and effective use of biomedical
knowledge
extracted from the available data.
With the emergence of unprecedented volumes of biomedical
publications as a
result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of which appear in
pre-publication
research repositories such as medRxiv and bioRxiv, this workshop
will
solicit work that address timely and pressing research challenges
at the
intersection of Knowledge Representation and Semantics for the
purpose of
searching biomedical literature. We are also interested in
semantic-based
retrieval techniques that enhance biomedical knowledge synthesis
and
systematic literature review. The topics of interest to the
workshop
include, but are not limited to:
Topics of Interest
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knowledge representation and semantics for biomedical literature
retrieval
Knowledge graphs in biomedical search
Biomedical knowledge source integration
Biomedical knowledge graph construction and embedding
Biomedical ontologies in search
Semantic features in biomedical literature classification and
ranking
Learning to rank biomedical literature
Semantics and Search for biomedical knowledge synthesis and
systematic
literature review
Entity linking and semantic annotation in biomedical texts
Datasets, metrics, and evaluation
Knowledge discovery / synthesis from literature
Biomedical literature retrieval for the systematic review process
Search and semantics of the publication process (reviewing,quality
assurance, discovering (self ) plagiarism)
Knowledge integration from multilingual Biomedical literature
Biomedical literature datasets, such as CORD-19 and evaluation
methods
Search and semantic tools for knowledge synthesis, and systematic
reviews
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Submission Instructions
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All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to
another
journal or conference.
All workshop papers should be no more than 8 pages in length.
Papers must
be submitted in PDF according to the ACM format published in the
ACM
guidelines, selecting the generic “sigconf” sample. The PDF files
must have
all non-standard fonts embedded. Workshop papers must be
self-contained and
in English.
Papers must be submitted at
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sebilan2021
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Workshop Organizers
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Berry de Bruijn: Senior research officer at the National Research
Council of Canada, Ottawa Ontario.
Faezeh Ensan: Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical,
Computer and Biomedical Engineering at Ryerson University,Toronto,
Canada.
Jelena Jovanovic: Professor at the Department of Software
Engineering,
University of Belgrade, Serbia.
Amal Zouaq: Associate Professor at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
and
an IVADO professor.
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