Scientific chairs

Sophia Ananiadou (NaCTeM and University of Manchester, UK)
Tapio Salakoski  (University of Turku, Finland)

Organization committee

Sampo Pyysalo (NaCTeM and University of Manchester, UK)
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (EBI, UK and University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Fabio Rinaldi (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

[contact the organization committee via smbmzurich @ gmail.com]

Local arrangements committee

Fabio Rinaldi (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Gerold Schneider (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Simon Clematide (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Gintarė Grigonytė (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

Programme committee

Adrian Shepherd (Birkbeck University of London, UK)
Anita Burgun-Parenthoine (University of Rennes, France)
David McClosky  (Stanford University, USA)
Dina Demner-Fushman (National Library of Medicine, USA)
Filip Ginter (University of Turku, Finland)
Florian Leitner (CNIO, Spain)
Gerold Schneider (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Goran Nenadic (University of Manchester, UK)
Gwan-Su Yi (KAIST, South Korea)
Hongfang Liu (Georgetown University Medical Center, USA)
Jian Su (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Hyunju Lee (GIST, South Korea)
Jin-Dong Kim (Database Center for Life Science, Japan)
Jong C. Park (KAIST, South Korea)
Jung-Jae Kim (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Karin Verspoor (NICTA, Australia)
Kevin Cohen (University of Colorado, USA)
Makoto Miwa(University of Manchester, UK)
Martin Krallinger (CNIO, Spain)
Martin Romacker (Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland)
Martin Volk (University of Zurich, Switzerland) 
Michael Krauthammer (Yale University School of Medicine, USA)
Mike Conway (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Naoaki Okazaki  (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)
Nigel Collier (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Patrick Ruch (University of Applied Sciences, Geneva)
Patrick Lambrix (Linköping University, Sweden)
Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Tomoko Ohta (NaCTeM and University of Manchester, UK)
Rune Sætre (University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)
Udo Hahn (University of Jena, Germany)
Wendy Chapman (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Yutaka Sasaki (Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan)

Related events

Previous SMBM events

• EMBL-EBI Semantic Mining in Biomedicine Symposiums page
• First International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine 2005, The European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK
• Second International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine 2006, Jena University, Jena, Germany
• Third International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine 2008, University of Turku, Finnland
  

LBM events

The SMBM series of events are planned to be arranged every second year, alternating with the "sister event" LBM (International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine). For more information on LBM, please see

• First International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine, 2005, Daejeon, Korea
• Second International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine, 2007, Singapore
• Third International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine, 2009, Jeju island, Korea
• Fourth International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine, 2011, Singapore