Introduction

摘要

BioNLP 2015 received 24 high quality submissions, continuing the fine tradition of the preceding thirteen years of BioNLP. The high quality of the submissions ensured that 12 of those were accepted as full papers / oral presentations and 11 as short papers / poster presentations. The themes in this year's papers and posters show equal interest in clinical text and in biological language processing. The morning session and the keynote presentations focus on the latest developments in biomedical text processing, whereas the afternoon session will present innovations in clinical text processing. This year, researchers continue advancing pathway, event and relation extraction from the literature and information extraction from clinical text, as well as continuing research in languages other than English.