Program

BioASQ / BioNLP-ST Workshop Program

13th August 2016

Room 2094, Humboldt University

Berlin, Germany

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
Ontology Based Categorization of Bacteria and Habitat Entities using Information Retrieval Techniques
Mert Tiftikci, Hakan Şahin, Berfu Büyüköz, Alper Yayıkçı and Arzucan Özgür
15:15-15:30
Identification of mentions and relations between bacteria and biotope from PubMed abstracts
Cyril Grouin
15:30-16:00
Coffee break
16:00-17:00
BioNLP-ST participant session 2
16:00-16:15
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
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
Extraction of Regulatory Events Using Kernel-based Classifiers and Distant Supervision
Andre Lamurias, Miguel J. Rodrigues, Luka A. Clarke and Francisco M Couto
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