Introduction

摘要

The first day of the BioNLP 2014 workshop continues following the course set by the first ACL workshop on Natural Language Processing in the Biomedical Domain that was held in 2002: BioNLP 2014 provides a venue for exploring challenges and techniques in processing biomedical language and brings together researchers from computational linguistics and biomedical informatics. The submissions to the first day of 2014 workshop organized by SIGBioMed were traditionally very strong and continued demonstrating the considerable breadth of research in biomedical language processing. The 2014 workshop has accepted 12 full and short papers for oral presentations and 7 posters. The first day of the workshop features a keynote that expands the scope of BioNLP beyond its already remarkable breadth Keynote BioNLP as the Pioneering field of linking text, knowledge and data Professor Jun'ichi Tsujii, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Chair of Text Mining and Scientific Director of the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) at the University of Manchester, UK The second day of the workshop features a paper submitted to the special track on NLP approaches for assessment of clinical conditions. Kathleen C. Fraser presents the featured talk on using statistical parsing to detect agrammatic aphasia. The track organizers, Thamar Solorio and Yang Liu, serve as discussants.