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Special Issue

Date of the workshop: 9 August 2013 

Location: Sofia, Bulgaria 

Hosted by the ACL BioNLP workshop Workshop, 8-9 August 2013 in the ACL 2013 Conference 

See the Schedule page for the deadlines 

See Program below, with links to the papers on the ACL Anthology 

Proceedings: Entire volume, Front Matter 

 

Published papers 

The special issue of BMC Bioinformatics on the BioNLP Shared Task (BioNLP-ST) 2013 was published: Volume 16 Supplement 10: BioNLP Shared Task 2013: Part 1 Volume 16 Supplement 16: BioNLP Shared Task 2013: Part 2 

 

Call for papers (closed) 

We are pleased to announce a special issue of BMC Bioinformatics on the BioNLP Shared Task (BioNLP-ST) 2013. 

BMC Bioinformatics is a premier open-access journal for BioNLP research with an Impact Factor of 3.02 and indexed by PubMed, Scopus, ACM and Thomson Reuters (ISI) among others. 

We invite two kinds of submissions: 

  • Extended versions of BioNLP-ST 2013 workshop papers. Each extended submission must include a substantial amount of previously unpublished content. In this type of submission, the workshop paper should be cited and the extended contribution has to be clearly stated. Please refer to the guidelines from BMC:
  • Papers on new contributions to the BioNLP-ST 2013 tasks. 

The BioNLP-ST 2013 data and evaluation services are kept online for new participants to register and evaluate their results on these datasets. For a general overview on BioNLP Shared Task 2013, please refer to the task homepage. 

All submissions will undergo full peer review by 3 reviewers. We expect that 7-8 papers will be selected to be included in the special issue based on the reviews. When preparing your manuscript, please follow the author guidelines of BMC Bioinformatics. 

Please note also the following: 

  • The submissions should NOT be made using the general BMC submissions site, but through the special issue submission site.
  • For accepted papers, the authors have to be prepared to pay the article-processing charges. 

 

Important dates 

  • Feb 11 Manuscript submission due (draft version)
  • Feb 18 Manuscript submission (final version)
  • April 28 Acceptance notification of first-round review 

To prepare the review process, we ask all those planning to submit a manuscript to submit an early version of the paper, including title and abstract, prior to the primary manuscript submission. The draft version is considered a notification of intent to submit and will only be used to coordinate reviews; it will not be considered in review of the manuscript. Note that the initial submissions must include sufficient information for reviewer assignment, e.g. title and abstract. The actual review will begin from Feb 4. So, the authors will have a chance to update their manuscripts by Feb 3.

 

Pre-submission phase 

The submission Web site is open at https://www.softconf.com/acl2013/BioNLP-sharedtask2013/  for a "pre-submission phase" intended to collect descriptions of the participant teams and systems, which will be used to prepare the assignment of papers to reviewers, and which will help the task organizers include in their papers a synthesis of the results and participant methods. The questions include minimal information about your team, methods, and resources used in the challenge. 

Deadline for pre-submission: April 26 

Please submit title, authors, and description of participant team, methods, and resources. 

 

Submission phase 

Paper submission proper will open at the same address on April 27. 

Authors will still be able to revise their descriptions of teams and systems in that phase. 

Participant papers can be submitted in two formats: 

  • long paper, 8 pages plus up to 2 pages of references
  • short paper, 4 pages plus up to 2 pages of references 

Submissions must be electronic and in PDF format, and should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings. Please see the conference website for details. Authors are strongly encouraged to use the style files and formatting instructions available on the conference website: 

http://acl2013.org/site/call.html  (scroll down) 

Note however that contrary to the ACL main conference, authors' names should not be blinded, but rather included openly. In the context of the shared task, genuine anonymity would not be possible since published results will identify teams anyway. 

Deadline for submission of papers: extended to May 3, 23:59 GMT-12 (closed)

 

Special issue editors 

  • Claire Nédellec, National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)
  • Jin-Dong Kim, Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS)
  • Sampo Pyysalo, University of Turku
  • Sophia Ananiadou, NaCTem
  • Pierre Zweigenbaum, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)