Distributional Semantics Resources for Biomedical Text Processing
Sampo Pyysalo, Filip Ginter, Hans Jonas Fossum Moen, T. Salakoski, Sophia Ananiadou · Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) · 2013
Dear LBM symposium participant, It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the fifth symposium on languages in biology and medicine (LBM 2013) and introduce these proceedings LBM is a biennial interdisciplinary forum that brings together researchers in biology, chemistry, medicine, public health and informatics to discuss and exploit cutting edge language technologies.Language, in its many forms, is the universal means to represent, convey, and question knowledge.Although knowledge is still widely communicated through natural languages, biology and medicine also use a number of other means of communication: sequences, ontologies, chemical and mathematical formulae, modelling languages, graphs, images, etc. Associated technologies such as text mining and information extraction, systems modelling, information visualization, semantic technology, and big data analytics are key for advancing biomedical research and healthcare provision.The automation and integration of all these solutions will enhance the access to the knowledge stored and conveyed in various representation, extending the opportunity of new knowledge discovery in the area.As all the individual technologies are constantly being challenged by user demands and complexities in an interdisciplinary research environment, the LBM symposium series aims to offer a forum for synergistic interactions between them.