ACL Special Interest Group on Biomedical Natural Language Processing

Welcome to the home page for the Biomedical Natural Language Processing Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). This SIG is dedicated to language processing in the biological, biomedical, and clinical domain. Biomedical language processing poses specific technical challenges that make it of interest to general NLP practitioners and make it of compelling importance to the larger field of biomedical informatics. The purpose of the BioMed SIG is to bring together researchers in NLP, bioinformatics, medical (clinical) informatics, and computational biology, providing a venue (both wiki and workshop) for the promotion and dissemination of original research in this area.

Upcoming Events

BioNLP 2025 Workshop and Shared Tasks at ACL, 1 August, 2025, Vienna, Austria

The office terms for SIGBIOMED Chair, Secretary, and Vice Chair are expiring this year.
These positions are elected by members, as described in the SIGBIOMED Constitution.
Please send nominations (self-nominations are fine) by directly emailing any member of the nominating committee:

Ben Holgate, King’s College London (benjamin.holgate kcl dot ac dot uk)
Ayah Zirikly, Johns Hopkins University (ayah.zirikly gmail dot com)
Steven Bethard, University of Arizona (bethard arizona dot edu)
Steven Bedrick, Oregon Health & Science University (bedricks ohsu dot edu)
Kirk Roberts, UTHealth Houston (kirk.roberts uth dot tmc dot edu)

Nominations are due June 6, 2025. Voting will begin the week after.

Note: Candidates must be ACL members in good standing. Also, both the candidate and nominator must be SIGBIOMED members in good standing. Functionally, this means simply being a member of the SIGBIOMED Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sigbiomed