The Public Library of Science (PLoS) seeks submissions in the field of text-mining research for a collection to be launched across all of its journals in 2013. All submissions submitted before October 30, 2012 will be considered for the launch of the collection. Submissions after this date will still be considered for the collection, but may not appear in the collection at launch. All articles must adhere to the submission guidelines of the PLoS journal to which one submits.
As part of its commitment to realising the maximal utility of open access literature, PLoS is launching a collection of articles dedicated to highlighting the importance of research in the area of text mining. The launch of this Text Mining Collection complements related PLoS Collections on Open Access and Altmetrics (forthcoming), as well as the recent release of the PLoS Application Programming Interface, which provides an open API to PLoS journal content.
As part of this Text Mining Collection, PLoS is making a call for high quality submissions that advance the field of text-mining research, including new methods for the retrieval or extraction of published scientific facts; large-scale analysis of data extracted from the scientific literature; new interfaces for accessing the scientific literature; semantic enrichment of scientific articles; linking the literature to scientific databases; application of text mining to database curation; approaches for integrating text mining into workflows; and resources (ontologies, corpora) to improve text mining research.
