BioNLP 2016 - 15th Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing

Over the course of the past fourteen years, the ACL BioNLP workshop associated with the SIGBIOMED special interest group has established itself as the primary venue for presenting foundational research in language processing for the biological and medical domains. The workshop serves as both a venue for bringing together researchers in bio- and clinical NLP and exposing these researchers to the mainstream ACL research, and a venue for informing the mainstream ACL researchers about the fast growing and important domain.
The workshop will continue presenting work on a broad and interesting range of topics in NLP.
The active areas of research include:
Entity identification and normalization for a broad range of semantic categories
Extraction of complex relations and events
Semantic parsing
Discourse analysis
Anaphora /Coreference resolution
Text mining
Literature based discovery
Summarization
Question Answering
Resources and novel strategies for system testing and evaluation
Infrastructures for biomedical text mining
Processing and annotation platforms
Translating NLP research to practice
Theoretical underpinnings of biomedical language processing