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Natural Language Processing

 

 

 

Workshop Program

13 August 2016

Humboldt University, room 2094

Berlin, Germany

 

The attendance is free of charge. However we ask the persons who wish to attend to fill the registration form in order to facilitate the organization and logistics.

 

9:00-9:15
 
Welcome
9:15-10:15
 
Invited speaker: Sherri Matis-Mitchell
Solving Problems and Supporting Decisions in Pharma R&D using Text Analytics: A Recent History
10:15-10:30
 
Overview of BioASQ
10:30-11:00
 
Coffee break
11:00-12:30
 
BioASQ participant session
11:00-11:15
 
Using Learning-To-Rank to Enhance NLM Medical Text Indexer Results
Ilya Zavorin, James Mork and Dina Demner-Fushman
11:15-11:30
 
LABDA at the 2016 BioASQ challenge task 4a: Semantic Indexing by using ElasticSearch
Isabel Segura-Bedmar, Adrián Carruana and Paloma Martínez
11:30-11:45
 
Learning to Answer Biomedical Questions: OAQA at BioASQ 4B
Zi Yang, Yue Zhou and Eric Nyberg
11:45-12:00
 
HPI Question Answering System in BioASQ 2016
Frederik Schulze, Ricarda Schuler, Tim Draeger, Daniel Dummer, Alexander Ernst, Pedro Flemming, Cindy Perscheid, Mariana Neves
12:00-12:15
 
KSAnswer: Question-answering System of Kangwon National University and Sogang University in the 2016 BioASQ Challenge
Hyeon-gu Lee, Minkyoung Kim, Harksoo Kim, Juae Kim, Sunjae Kwon, Jungyun Seo, Yi-Reun Kim and Jung-Kyu Choi
12:15-12:30
 
Large-Scale Semantic Indexing and Question Answering in Biomedicine
Eirini Papagiannopoulou, Yiannis Papanikolaou, Dimitris Dimitriadis, Sakis Lagopoulos, Grigorios Tsoumakas, Manos Laliotis, Nikos Markantonatos and Ioannis Vlahavas
12:30-14:00
 
Lunch break
14:00-14:15
 
Overview of BioNLP-ST
14:15-15:30
 
BioNLP-ST participant session 1
14:15-14:30
 
LitWay, discriminative extraction for different bio-events
Chen Li, Zhiqiang Rao and Xiangrong Zhang
14:30-14:45
 
VERSE: Event and relation extraction in the BioNLP 2016 Shared Task
Jake Lever and Steven JM Jones
14:45-15:00
 
A dictionary- and rule-based system for identification of bacteria and habitats in text
Helen Cook, Evangelos Pafilis and Lars Juhl Jensen
15:00-15:15
 
Extraction of Regulatory Events Using Kernel-based Classifiers and Distant Supervision
Andre Lamurias, Miguel J. Rodrigues, Luka A. Clarke and Francisco M Couto
15:15-15:30
 
Deep Learning With Minimal Training Data: TurkuNLP Entry in The BioNLP Shared Task 2016
Farrokh Mehryary, Jari Björne, Sampo Pyysalo, Tapio Salakoski and Filip Ginter
15:30-16:00
 
Coffee break
16:00-17:00
 
BioNLP-ST participant session 2
16:00-16:15
 
Identification of mentions and relations between bacteria and biotope from PubMed abstracts
Cyril Grouin
16:15-16:30
 
SeeDev Binary Event Extraction Using SVMs and a Rich Feature set
Nagesh Panyam Chandrasekarasastry, Gitansh Khirbat, Karin Verspoor, Trevor Cohn and Kotagiri Ramamohanarao
16:30-16:45
 
Ontology Based Categorization of Bacteria and Habitat Entities using Information Retrieval Techniques
Mert Tiftikci, Hakan Şahin, Berfu Büyüköz, Alper Yayıkçı and Arzucan Özgür
16:45-17:00
 
DUTIR in BioNLP-ST 2016: Utilizing convolutional network and distributed representation to extract complicate relations
Honglei Li, Jianhai Zhang, Jian Wang, Hongfei Lin and Zhihao Yang
17:00-17:30
 
Closing session