Chun-Nan Hsu, an associate research fellow at the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and his co-authors has an article entitled "Integrating high dimensional bi-directional parsing models for gene mention tagging" accepted for oral presentation at 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) to be held from 19-23 July 2008 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ISMB is one of the most prestigious conferences in computational biology. All papers accepted for oral presentation are also accepted for inclusion in the special issue of the journal Bioinformatics, which is one of the journals with the highest impact factor in the field of bioinformatics. The acceptance rate of ISMB has been maintained at around 15% for a decade. According to Editorial of the 2007 ISMB special issue, "this ratio is less than for typical submission to Bioinformatics, for three reasons. First, papers submitted to ISMB had to have the quality of a regular submission to Bioinformatics. In addition, they had to make for interesting talks and, finally, they had to be acceptable without major revision." This article is about biological text mining. Chun-Nan Hsu's teams already achieved the best correctness scores in the BioCreative 2 competition held in Madrid, Spain last year. This year, they improved their method further and achieved even better correctness results that open a huge lead over other competitors. Therefore, their article was accepted unconditionally by the reviewers in the first round of review. This article is also the first paper written in Taiwan that was accepted by ISMB. This research is supported under the grant for the Advanced Bioinformatics Core, the National Research Program for Genomic Medician (NRPGM).
For details please refer to: http://aiia.iis.sinica.edu.tw/biocreative2.htm
