7th BioASQ Workshop on Large-Scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing and Question Answering(BioASQ 2019)

September 20, 2019, Würzburg, Germany

Call for Papers

The aim of the BioASQ workshop is to bring experts from these domains together in order to push the research frontier towards hybrid information systems that will be able to deal with the whole diversity of the Web, especially for, but not restricted to the context of bio-medicine. During the workshop, the results of the BioASQ challenge will also be presented.

For the last seven years, the series of BioASQ challenges and workshops keeps providing an excellent opportunity for researchers around the world to communicate and discuss established and novel approaches on biomedical semantic indexing, information retrieval, knowledge extraction, and question answering.

Topics of Interest :

• Large-scale hierarchical text classification
  
• Large-scale classification of documents onto ontology concepts (semantic indexing)
  
• Classification of questions onto ontological concepts Scalable approaches to document clustering
  
• Text summarization, especially multi-document and query-focused summarization
  
• Verbalization of structured information and related queries (RDF, OWL, SPARQL, etc.)
  
• Question Answering over structured, semi-structured and unstructured data
  
• Reasoning for information retrieval and question answering
  
• Information retrieval over fragmented sources of information
  
• Efficient indexing and storage structures for information retrieval
  
• Delivery of the retrieved information in a concise and user-understandable form

Paper Submission

Papers must be written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines.

Author instructions, style files and the copyright form can be downloaded here.

Paper submission is done via easychair:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bioasq2019 .

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