Invited talks at the BioASQ workshop

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BioASQ workshop on biomedical semantic indexing and question answering

Webpage:  <http://www.bioasq.org/workshop/> http://www.bioasq.org/workshop/

Submission: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bioasq2013

Email: bioasq2013@easychair.org

Expected submissions: Short (max. 6 pages) and long (max. 12 pages)

Submission format: LNCS

 

INVITED TALKS

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We are delighted to announce the following talks by our invited speakers at
the workshop:

 

- "Indexing the Biomedical Literature in a Time of Increased Demand and
Limited Resources", by Alan R Aronson, Lister Hill Center, U.S. National
Library of Medicine, USA

 

- "Watson Beyond Jeopardy!: Adaptation to the Medical Domain", by Jennifer
Chu-Caroll, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

 

During the workshop, the results of the open BioASQ challenge will also be
presented.

 

IMPORTANT DATES

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Submission Deadline: August 15th, 2013

Notification of acceptance/rejection: August 31st, 2013 

Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: September 15th, 2013

Workshop: September 27th, 2013

*** Please note the due to the very tight schedule, no extensions to the
deadlines will be possible. ***

 

REGISTRATION

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Although there is NO REGISTRATION FEE for the workshop, if you intend to
participate, you will need to fill in the registration form at
http://www.bioasq.org/workshop/register-bioasq-workshop-1 

 

VENUE

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The workshop will be held at the Technical University of Valencia, as a
post-conference workshop after CLEF 2013. The Workshop will take place in
building 1E, room "Salon de actos". Note that this is NOT the building where
CLEF will be taking place!