The first CALBC ("Collaborative annotation of a large-scale biomedical corpus") workshop is to be held in 19/20 April 2010 at EBI (European Bioinformatics Institute, U.K.).

Location: European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, U.K.
Date: 19/20 April 2010

The CALBC project is creating a broadly-scoped and diversely annotated corpus (several 100,000 Medline abstracts on immunology annotated with about a dozen semantic groups) by automatically integrating the annotations from different named entity recognition and concept identification systems. The result of the integration process will be a silver standard corpus (SSC).

The CALBC challenge, announced earlier to deal with biomedical named entity recognition (NER) and identification of entities, is now closed. At the CALBC workshop, participants of will discuss the outcome of the challenge. The CALBC project partner will explain in detail previous work on the corpus and will present the results from the challenge. Participants will present their work to meet the demands of the challenge.

The CALBC workshop offers the unique opportunity to learn more about this unusual approach to generate a large-scale annotated corpus. One highlight is the session about the exploitation of the scientific literature in Semantic Web applications. The workshop participants and members of the pharmaceutical industry will discuss how Semantic Web applications will profit from semantic enrichment of the scientific literature (as provided from the harmonised CALBC corpus).