[CfP] Extended deadline for JOWO paper submissions

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Eric Top

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May 31, 2025, 3:38:51 PMMay 31
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Dear ontology-engineering enthusiast,

We draw your immediate attention to this call: The submission deadline of all JOWO workshops has been extended to June 14th, 2025, which means you still have roughly two weeks to finish that report, idea, result, vision, or model that you have been working on. Time to get to work(shops)!

Don’t hesitate, even a small idea can have huge impact. The workshops offer you a chance to plant the small seed that may or may not become the intellectual oak of the future, standing tall, or a delicate bonsai tree, small but oh-so important in the forest of science. A twenty page document titled “Information Management: A proposal” started as an intriguing proposal for a one-year project, and ended being the birth certificate of the internet, signed by one Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Had he not shared his idea with his community at CERN, we would not have been able to send you this e-mail. In this light, what will we miss if you do not share your ideas? Take this chance, we welcome your work within the communities of Joint Ontologies Workshops (JOWO).

You may find landing grounds for your work in one of the following JOWO workshops:

  1. Cognition and OntologiesS (CAOS9)
  2. 14th International Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry (FOMI)
  3. Fifth International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage (SWODCH 2025)
  4. The Ninth Image Schema Day (ISD9)
  5. Integrated Food Ontology Workshop (IFOW 2025)
  6. 9th Workshop on Foundational Ontology (FOUST IX)
  7. 2nd Playing with Meanings workshop (PwM2)
  8. Knowledge Management and process mining for Law (KM4LAW)
  9. The 2nd International Workshop on Modeling for Cybersecurity (Shields 2)
  10. Second Annual Workshop on Convergence of Large-Language Models and Ontologies (ONTOLLM 2025)
  11. Explicit and Implicit Knowledge Extraction (EIKE)
  12. Ontologies for Services and Social-good (OSS)
  13. Workshop on Promoting Healthy Aging through the Semantic Enrichment of Social Science (PHASES 2025)
  14. Perspectival Ontology Workshop on Entities that can be Realized (POWERs)
  15. Planning and Ontology Workshop (PLATO)

JOWO is co-hosted with the 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS), held at Catania from September 8-12, 2025. Please take note of the following dates:

JOWO Workshops

·           Workshop paper submission deadline: 25 May 2025 1 June 14 June 2025*

·           Workshop paper author notification: 14 July 2025

·           Camera-ready submission: 1 September 2025

* Reference submission deadline; actual deadlines may still differ between workshops in the end. Therefore, make sure to consult the calls from the workshops themselves, as those are leading.

Registration for FOIS and JOWO is available soon. Make sure to keep an eye out. The current deadlines for registration are:

·       Early bird registration: July 25th, 2025

·       On site registration: August 31st, 2025

For more information, please visit the registration page.

We, the organization of FOIS and JOWO, look forward to receiving your submissions.

Kind regards,

César Bernabé and Eric Top (Publicity chairs)


Martin Krallinger

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Jun 4, 2025, 7:22:19 AMJun 4
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(Apologies for cross-posting)

CFP: ToxHabits Shared Task (BioCreative IX will be colocated with IJCAI 2025 in Montreal, CA) 

Named entity recognition of toxic habits including substance abuse, smoking & alcohol consumption in clinical texts

https://temu.bsc.es/toxhabits/ 

The ToxHabits track focuses on the automatic detection of toxic habit entity mentions in clinical case reports written in Spanish. We also plan to release a multilingual version of the dataset, including versions in English and other languages.

🔹 Key Links:

Subtasks
  • ToxNER (Subtask 1):
    Detect spans and types of substance mentions (Tobacco, Alcohol, Drug, Cannabis).
  • ToxUse (Subtask 2):
    Detect spans and labels related to usage (Amount, Type, Frequency, Duration, Method, History).

 Timeline
  • Train Set Released: April 30, 2025
  • Test Set Released: May 26, 2025
  • Submission Deadline: June 5, 2025 (AoE)
  • Results Announcement: June 6, 2025
  • System Paper Deadline (BioCreative proceedings): June 16, 2025
  • Review Notification: July 1, 2025
  • IJCAI 2025 Conference: August 16–22, 2025 (Montreal, Canada)


💡 Motivation
Systems capable of detecting and characterizing toxic habits, including not only smoking and alcohol consumption but also various forms of drug or substance abuse, from medical text are crucial for nearly all healthcare data mining, medical AI, and predictive clinical applications. These toxic habits are critical for understanding disease risk, treatment planning, and patient outcomes.
In the United States alone, drug overdose deaths since 2000 are approaching one million. Globally, the burden of substance abuse is clear and growing. This highlights the urgent need for systematic extraction and characterization of toxic habit information from medical texts.
To address these challenges, the ToxHabits shared task has been proposed as part of the BioCreative IX initiative, co-located with IJCAI 2025.

Clinical Use Cases Include:
  1. Risk Assessment for Chronic Diseases
  2. Anesthesia and Surgical Planning
  3. Mental Health Diagnosis and Management
  4. Medication Metabolism and Drug Interactions
  5. Prenatal and Maternal Care
  6. Infectious Disease Screening and Prevention
  7. Liver Function and Hepatology
  8. Oncology: Risk and Treatment Planning
  9. Pain Management and Opioid Prescribing
  10. Emergency and Acute Care Triage


 Workshop Proceedings & Special Issue
Participating teams will be invited to contribute a system description paper to the BioCreative IX Working Notes and to give a flash presentation during the BioCreative session at IJCAI.
Top-performing teams may be invited to submit an extended version to a special journal issue.

All BioCreative IX Tracks
  • Track 1: MedHopQA
  • Track 2: Sentence Segmentation of Real-Life Clinical Notes
  • Track 3: ToxHabits

Organizers
  • Wesam Al-Nabki, BSC, Spain
  • Gabriel Vayá-Abad, BSC, Spain
  • Eulàlia Farré-Maduell, BSC, Spain
  • Jan Rodríguez Miret, BSC, Spain
  • Martin Krallinger, BSC, Spain

Scientific Committee
  • Dina Demner-Fushman, NIH/NLM
  • Ozlem Uzuner, George Mason University
  • Asma Ben Abacha, Microsoft Health AI
  • Anastasios Nentidis, NCSR Demokritos
  • Anastasia Krithara, NCSR Demokritos
  • Lourdes Araujo, UNED
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