Fourth International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine (SMBM 2010) October 25-26, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK

The Fourth Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine (SMBM 2010) will be held at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK on October 25th and 26th, 2010.

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SMBM 2010 aims to bring together researchers from text and data mining in biomedicine, medical, bio- and chemoinformatics, and researchers from biomedical ontology design and engineering. SMBM 2010 is the follow-up event of SMBM 2005 (EBI, U.K.), SMBM 2006 (University of Jena, Germany) and SMBM 2008 (University of Turku, Finland).

A parallel event (LBM: The International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine) has been held in 2005 (KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea), 2007 (Matrix, Biopolis, Singapore) and 2009 (Jeju Island, South Korea).

The biomedical research community eagerly awaits the full integration of very large text collections, biological databases, ontologies and terminological resources. However, many challenges have yet to be met to achieve this ambitious goal. Significant advances have been made and many working systems for tasks ranging from entity recognition and simple relation extraction to structured event extraction have been deployed. Where do we stand and how do we advance toward fully integrated systems combining the different tools and data sources?