CCL: Call for abstracts: Hunting for hidden treasures
- From: "Wei Deng" <ddeng*chemaxon.com>
- Subject: CCL: Call for abstracts: Hunting for hidden treasures
- Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 13:19:44 -0500
Sent to CCL by: "Wei Deng" [ddeng : chemaxon.com]
Call for abstracts: Hunting for hidden treasures: chemical information in
patents and other documents
We are now accepting submission of abstracts for consideration for an ACS
Division of Chemical Information (CINF) Symposium on information extraction
and analysis from patents and other documents, at the ACS Fall 2012 meeting
in Philadelphia, August 19-23, 2012.
There is a huge chemical space represented in existing documents, such as
patents, journal articles, other publications, internal documents, etc. Due
to historical reasons and technical limitations, much of this space is not
indexed or digitalized. How to extract this information and to make use of it
has long been a challenging task and will be the focus of this symposium. A
discussion of current developments can hopefully benefit not only scientists
in the pharmaceutical industry and academia, but also individuals in
cheminformatics, publishing, patent laws and governmental agency.
Related research topics include, but not limited to:
Chemical information extraction, such as chemical names, structure
images, Markush structures (especially R-groups and homology groups) from
documents.
Complex Markush structure analysis, generation and representation.
White space identification.
Automated biological data mining from documents.
Automated SAR (Structure-activity relationship) analysis.
Different interpretations of chemical information by chemists,
information scientists, patent attorneys and patent examiners.
Global patent harmonization.
Non-English document analysis.
Presentations will be 25-30 minutes, including time for questions. The
deadline for submitting an abstract for consideration is March 19th, 2012.
Abstracts may be submitted via: http://abstracts.acs.org (Session code
CINF005).
Please contact the organizer, Wei Deng (David) (dengw2 -at- gmail.com or
ddeng -at -chemaxon.com ), if you have any questions or to discuss a paper.