Programme (December 14, 2011)
| Start | End | Title | Authors |
| 9:15 | 9:30 | Opening | |
| 9:30 | 10:00 | Anatomical Entity Recognition with Open Biomedical Ontologies | Sampo Pyysalo, Tomoko Ohta, Sophia Ananiadou |
| 10:00 | 10:30 | Resolving Speculation and Negation Scope in Biomedical Articles with a Syntactic Constituent Ranker | Jonathon Read, Erik Velldal, Stephan Oepen, Lilja Øvrelid |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Mining Characteristics of Epidemiological Studies from Medline: A Case Study in Obesity | George Karystianis, Iain Buchan, Goran Nenadic |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 | 12:00 | The Languages of Health in GP Electronic Patient Records: A Zipf’s Law Analysis | Leila R Kalankesh, Andy Brass, John New, Patricia Baker |
| 12:00 | 12:30 | Automatic Classification of Factuality Levels – A Case Study on Swedish Diagnoses and the Impact of Local Context | Sumithra Velupillai |
| 12:30 | 14:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00 | 15:00 | Keynote: Multimodal Biomedical Information Retrieval | Dina Demner-Fushman |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 | 15:50 | Statistical Approach to PubMed Query Reformulation | Tuan Luu, Andrew Gan Jian Wen, Jung-Jae Kim |
| 15:50 | 16:10 | Applying N-Gram Language Modeling for Pattern Mining in Whole Genome Sequences | Madhavi Ganapathiraju, Mohamed Thahir, Asia Mitchell |
| 16:10 | 17:30 | Poster session | |
| 17:30 | 22:00 | Tour of the National Museum of Singapore and banquet | |
Programme (December 15, 2011)
| Start | End | Title | Authors |
| 9:30 | 10:00 | Pathway Curation Support as an Information Extraction Task | Tomoko Ohta, Sampo Pyysalo, Sophia Ananiadou, Junichi Tsujii |
| 10:00 | 10:30 | Automatic Algorithm Selection for MeSH Heading Indexing Based on Meta-Learning | Antonio Jimeno, James G. Mork, Dina Demner-Fushman, Alan Aronson |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Annotation of Biomedical Text with Gene Regulation Ontology: Towards Semantic Web for Biomedical Literature | Jung-Jae Kim, Xu Han, Watson Wei Khong Chua |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 | 12:00 | Adapting the Cluster Ranking Supervised Model to Resolve Coreferences in the Drug Literature | Riza Theresa Batista-Navarro, Sophia Ananiadou |
| 12:00 | 12:30 | Topic Classification for Suicidology | Jonathon Read, Erik Velldal, Lilja Øvrelid |
| 12:30 | 14:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00 | 15:00 | Keynote: Can Machines Understand Chemistry in Scientific Publications? | Peter Murray-Rust |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 | 15:50 | All Concepts at Once and One Concept at a Time in Clinical Concept Extraction | Manabu Torii, Kavishwar Wagholikar, Hongfang Liu |
| 15:50 | 16:10 | Almost Total Recall: Semantic Category Disambiguation Using Large Lexical Resources and Approximate String Matching | Pontus Stenetorp, Sampo Pyysalo, Sophia Ananiadou, Jun'Ichi Tsujii |
| 16:10 | 16:30 | Analyzing Disagreements among ICD-9-CM Coders | Seung-Cheol Baek, Jong C. Park |
| 16:30 | 17:00 | Closing | |
