Call For Participation: Eighth 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 CLEF2020, Thessaloniki, Greece, 22 - 25 September 2020)     
 
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                 CLEF 2020: https://clef2020.clef-initiative.eu/
 
The eighth BioASQ challenge consists of three different tasks (Task 8a, Task 8b and MESINESP8).
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 8a (large-scale biomedical semantic indexing)
 
If you are also interested in the above areas in a multilingual context, then you may want
to participate in BioASQ Task MESINESP8 (Medical Semantic Indexing In Spanish)
 
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 8b (biomedical semantic QA).

Important dates:

  • Task 8a: You can join anytime from February 3, 2020 onwards. New data sets will be released weekly.
  • Task 8b: You can join on ANY of the following dates:
    • March 4, 2020
    • March 28, 2020
    • April 1, 2020
    • April 15, 2020
    • April 29, 2020
  • Task MESINESP8: You can join in spring, 2020. Detailed schedule TBA.
Training data for both tasks available at http://participants-area.bioasq.org/
 
Registration in the BioASQ CLEF2020 Lab is open, at http://clef2020-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/