Program

BioASQ 2020 Workshop Schedule.

 

Tuesday September 22, 2020 (GMT time zone)
09:00–09:05 Welcome
09:05-09:15 Overview of BioASQ 8a and 8b: Results of the eighth edition of the BioASQ tasks a and b
  • Anastasios Nentidis, Anastasia Krithara, Konstantinos Bougiatiotis, Georgios Paliouras
09:15–09:30 Overview of MESINESP, a Spanish Medical Semantic Indexing Task within BioASQ 2020
  • Carlos Rodriguez-Penagos, Anastasios Nentidis, Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre, Alejandro Asensio, Jordi Armengol-Estapé, Anastasia Krithara, Marta Villegas, Georgios Paliouras, Martin Krallinger
09:30–09:45
AUEB-NLP at BioASQ 8: Biomedical Document and Snippet Retrieval
  • Dimitris Pappas, Petros Stavropoulos, Ion Androutsopoulos
09:45–10:00
Transfer Learning for Biomedical Question Answering
  • Arda Akdemir, Tetsuo Shibuya
10:00–10:15
NCU-IISR: Using a Pre-trained Language Model and Logistic Regression Model for BioASQ Task 8b Phase B
  • Jen-Chieh Han, Richard Tzong-Han Tsai
10:15–10:30
Transferability of Natural Language Inference to Biomedical Question Answering
  • Minbyul Jeong, Mujeen Sung, Gangwoo Kim, Donghyeon Kim, Wonjin Yoon, Jaehyo Yoo, Jaewoo Kang
10:30–11:00 Break
11:00–11:15 Extreme Multi-Label Classification applied to the Biomedical and Multilingual Panorama
  • André Neves, André Lamúrias, Francisco Couto
11:15–11:30
Statistical Graph Matching for Indexing Spanish Biomedical Documents
  • Alicia Lara-Clares, Ana García-Serrano
11:30–12:30
  • Shanfeng Zhu, Fudan University, China
12:30–13:00 Break
13:00–14:30 [Plenary Keynote] Ellen Voorhees
14:30–15:00 Break
15:00–15:15
CoLe and LYS at BioASQ MESINESP8 Task: Similarity based Descriptor Assigment in Spanish
  • Francisco J. Ribadas-Pena, Shuyuan Cao, Elmurod Kuriyozov
15:15–15:30
Priberam at MESINESP Multi-label Classification of Medical Texts Task
  • Rúben Cardoso, Zita Marinho, Afonso Mendes, Sebastião Miranda
15:30–15:45
Hybrid First-stage Retrieval Models for Biomedical Literature
  • Ji Ma, Ivan Korotkov, Keith Hall, Ryan McDonald
15:45–16:00
BIT.UA at BioASQ 8: Lightweight Neural Document Ranking with Zero-shot Snippet Retrieval
  • Tiago Almeida, Sérgio Matos
16:00–16:15
Unsupervised Pre-training for Biomedical Question Answering
  • Vaishnavi Kommaraju, Karthick Gunasekaran, Kun Li, Trapit Bansal, Andrew McCallum, Ivana Williams, Ana-Maria Istrate
16:15–16:30
Transformer-Based Open Domain Biomedical Question Answering at BioASQ8 Challenge
  • Ashot Kazaryan, Uladzislau Sazanovich, Vladislav Belyaev
Wednesday September 23, 2020 (GMT time zone)
07:00–07:15 Query Focused Multi-document Summarisation of Biomedical Texts
  • Diego Molla, Christopher Jones, Vincent Nguyen
07:15–07:30 Query-focused Biomedical Text Summarization using UMLS graph
  • Jainisha Sankhavara, Prasenjit Majumder
07:30–07:45 Award Announcements
07:45–08:30 Panel Discussion