Call For Participation: Sixth BioASQ Challenge On Large-Scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing And Question Answering

BioASQ challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering
(the BioASQ Workshop, will take place in EMNLP, Brussels, Belgium, October 31- November 1, 2018)                      
 
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The BioASQ challenge consists of two different tasks (Task 6a and Task 6b).
If you are interested in any of the following areas:
  • Large-scale and hierarchical classification
  • Machine learning
  • Semantic Indexing, semantic similarity
then you may want to participate in BioASQ Task 6a (large-scale biomedical semantic indexing).
If you are interested in any of the following areas:
  • Question answering from unstructured and structured data
  • Single and multi-document summarization
  • Information retrieval and passage retrieval
  • Semantic indexing, semantic similarity and reasoning
  • Machine learning, classification, learning to rank
  • Named-entity recognition and disambiguation
  • Information extraction, fact checking, relation extraction
  • Textual entailment
  • Natural-language generation
then you may want to participate in BioASQ Task 6b (biomedical semantic QA).

Important dates:

  • Task 6a: You can join anytime from February 5, 2018 onwards. New data sets will be released weekly.
  • Task 6b: You can join on ANY of the following dates:
    • March 7, 2018
    • March 21, 2018
    • April 4, 2018
    • April 18, 2018
    • May 2, 2018.
Training data for both tasks available at http://participants-area.bioasq.org/