Announcing the first joint conference on Text in Biology: Biological Research with Information Extraction & Open-Access Publications (BRIE & OAP) 2001 A satellite event at the ISMB'01 conference Tivoli Gardens Copenhagen, Denmark July 26, 2001 9 AM to 5 PM Registration Programme Maps Sponsored by...

Text in Biology: BRIE & OAP 2001

http://bioinformatics.org/bof/brie-oap-01/

The first joint conference on Text in Biology: Biological Research with
Information Extraction and Open-Access Publications (BRIE & OAP) is a one-day
symposium which aims to bring together individuals and groups interested in both
biological discovery using text mining techniques and removing obstacles created
by current publication practices.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Alfonso Valencia
CNB-CSIC, Spain

J.W. Bizzaro
Bioinformatics.org
& University of Massachusetts Lowell, US

Christos Ouzounis
EMBL-EBI, UK

Thomas Sicheritz-Ponten
The Technical University of Denmark

This conference is sponsored by Novartis and Bioinformatics.org.


MEETING SCHEDULE

09:00 - 09:05  OAP Introduction
               J.W. Bizzaro
               Bioinformatics.org
               & University of Massachusetts Lowell

09:10 - 09:30  "The Public Library of Science"
               Michael Eisen
               Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
               & University of California Berkeley
               (PDF abstract)

09:35 - 09:55  "BioMed Central - Open-Access Publishing in the Real World"
               Matthew Cockerill
               BioMed Central
               (text abstract)

10:00 - 10:15  Coffee Break

10:15 - 10:35  "Information Extraction Using Open-Access Publications"
               Jan Komorowski
               Norwegian University of Science and Technology
               (txt abstract)

10:40 - 11:00  OAP Panel Discussion

11:00 - 11:05  BRIE Introduction
               Alfonso Valencia
               CNB-CSIC

11:10 - 11:30  "Current Research on 'Smart Documents' in the Biological
               Knowledge Laboratory"
               Robert Futrelle
               Northeastern University
               (PDF abstract)

11:35 - 11:55  "Learning Information Extractors from Approximately
               Correct Patterns and Weakly Labeled Training Data"
               Mark Craven
               University of Wisconsin
               (PS abstract)

12:00 - 13:00  Lunch

13:00 - 13:20  "A Generic Statistical Method for Information Extraction
               in Genomics"  
               Violaine Pillet
               INRIA Rhone-Alpes
               (RTF abstract)

13:25 - 13:45  "Information Extraction with Hidden Markov Models"
               Eom Jae-Hong
               Seoul National University
               (text abstract)

13:50 - 14:10  "The Frame-Based Module of the Suiseki Information
               Extraction System"
               Christian Blaschke
               CNB-CSIC
               (text abstract)

14:15 - 14:30  Coffee Break

14:30 - 14:50  "Supporting Discovery in Biomedicine by Association Rule
               Mining of Bibliographic Databases"
               Dimitar Hristovski
               University of Ljubljana
               (text abstract)

14:55 - 15:15  "A Suite of Tools to Mine Relations of Nuclear Receptors
               and Cofactors from Scientific Literature"
               Dietrich Schuhmann
               LION Bioscience AG
               (text abstract)

15:20 -        BRIE Panel Discussion