Call for Participation at the First International Biochemical Knowledge Extraction Challenge (BiKE2023)

ESWC 2023, May 28th to June 1st, 2023 in Hersonissos, Greece

https:// https://project-hobbit.eu/challenges/qald2017/aksw.github.io/bike

Most of the structured biochemical information available on the Web today is manually curated, and it is practically impossible to keep pace with the research being constantly published in scientific articles.

Within this challenge, we want to speed up and promote research on automatic biochemical knowledge extraction mechanisms with the aim of increasing the information available on natural products to promote the development of environmental-friendly products while increasing awareness of the biodiversity value.

We invite researchers to participate by re-using or designing new innovative Biochemical Extraction methods. The participants will have the opportunity to present, discuss and display their system at the BiKE workshop.

The challenge consists of extracting relevant information matching a given ontology.

#Pre-registration

Pre-registrations can be performed through the online form: https://forms.gle/2sMUUondkULRwnE66

#Submission

Every competing approach should submit a 12 pages article describing the method in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For further instructions, you can check the Springer Conference Proceeding templates at Springer submission guidelines ( https://www.springer.com/de/it-informatik/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidel... ).

Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair system ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bike2023). Submissions will be reviewed by members of the challenge program committee. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the challenge. The complete set of papers will be published with the Tex2KG Workshop CEUR Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), listed by the DBLP.

#Awards

The first, second, and third best biochemical knowledge extraction methods are going to be awarded as follows:

- First Place: EUR 1000

- Second Place: EUR 500

- Third Place: EUR 250

#Preliminary Schedule

- Release of training data and instructions: January 20th, 2023 PST - Result submission deadline: April 27th, 2023 PST - Release of test dataset & results: May 22th, 2023 PST - Paper submission deadline: May 27th, 2023 PST - Notification & Reviews: Jun 15th, 2023 PST - Submission of camera-ready papers: Jun 27th, 2023 PST

#QA

Questions can be addressed directly in our QA Slack channel https://chemnet.slack.com/archives/C04QZ77BS2K