Fourteenth Challenge Winners



Task 14b winners: UL

Task 14b winners: CSA-IISR

Task Synergy 14 winners: CMU

Task MultiClinSum-2 winners: ixa-sum

Task MultiClinSum-2 winners: MediScribes

Task BioNNE-R winners: HSE NLP

Task GutBrainIE winners: Graphwise

Task GutBrainIE winners: SMTE

 


Task 14b: Biomedical Semantic QA

PHASE A
    BATCH 1 BATCH 2 BATCH 3 BATCH 4
DOCUMENTS 1st BSRC BSRC BSRC UL
(SELECTION STRATEGY: MAP) 2nd UL UL UL UR
SNIPPETS 1st Fudan MQU UR USTGZ-MDI
(SELECTION STRATEGY: F-measure) 2nd BSRC BSRC NN UR

PHASE A+
    BATCH 1 BATCH 2 BATCH 3 BATCH 4
EXACT 1st MQU MQU Fudan UR
(SELECTION STRATEGY: AVG RANKING IN THREE TYPES: Y/N-MACRO F1, FACT-MRR, LIST MEAN F-MEASURE) 2nd UL UL UR Fudan
IDEAL 1st MQU Fudan MQU UR
(SELECTION STRATEGY: MEAN MANUAL SCORE) 2nd Fudan UR UR MQU

PHASE B
    BATCH 1 BATCH 2 BATCH 3 BATCH 4
EXACT 1st NSUT MQU CSA-IISR CSA-IISR
(SELECTION STRATEGY: AVG RANKING IN THREE TYPES: Y/N-MACRO F1, FACT-MRR, LIST MEAN F-MEASURE) 2nd CSA-IISR UL MQU UL
IDEAL 1st MQU UL Evidence Prime NCU-IISR
(SELECTION STRATEGY: MEAN MANUAL SCORE) 2nd Fudan NCU-IISR UL UL

 
Teams (Task 14b):
  • MQU team: Dima Galat and Marian-Andrei Rizoiu
    (MQU: Macquarie University, Australia)
  • UR team: Samy Ateia and Udo Kruschwitz
    (UR: University of Regensburg, Germany)
  • Fudan team: Huiying Yan, Yuyi Zhang, Yujie Dong, and Shanfeng Zhu
    (Fudan: Fudan University, China)
  • BSRC team: Dimitra Panou, Alexandros C. Dimopoulos, Manolis Koubarakis, and Martin Reczko
    (BSRC: Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming”, Greece)
  • UL team: Yun Wang
    (UL: University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
  • CSA-IISR team: Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, Yen-Sung Chiu, Cheng-Yu Hou, and Chen-Hau Hsu
    (CSA-IISR: National Central University & Chingshin Academy, Taiwan)
  • NCU-IISR team: Yi-Chieh Hung, Jen-Chieh Han, Hsi-Chuan Hung, and Richard Tzong-Han Tsai
    (NCU-IISR: National Central University, Taiwan)
  • Evidence Prime team: Damian Stachura, Joanna Konieczna, and Artur Nowak
    (Evidence Prime, Poland)
  • NSUT team: Poojan Vachharajani
    (NSUT: Netaji Subhas University of Technology, India)
  • USTGZ-MDI team: Ri Su and Zhao Chen
    (USTGZ-MDI: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) - intelligent Medical Data Laboratory, China)
  • NN team: Felix A Kruger
    (NN: Novo Nordisk, Denmark)

Task Synergy 14: Biomedical Semantic QA for Developing Topics

    Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4
DOCUMENTS 1st DePaul DePaul Fudan Fudan
(SELECTION STRATEGY: MAP) 2nd Fudan Fudan DePaul DePaul
SNIPPETS 1st Fudan Fudan BSRC Fudan
(SELECTION STRATEGY: F-measure) 2nd DePaul DePaul Fudan DePaul
EXACT 1st - DePaul BSRC BSRC
(SELECTION STRATEGY: AVG RANKING IN THREE TYPES: Y/N-MACRO F1, FACT-MRR, LIST MEAN F-MEASURE) 2nd - BSRC UR Fudan
IDEAL 1st - DePaul CMU BSRC
(SELECTION STRATEGY: MEAN MANUAL SCORE) 2nd - Fudan Fudan Fudan

 
Teams (Task Synergy 14):
  • Fudan team: Huiying Yan, Yuyi Zhang, Yujie Dong, and Shanfeng Zhu
    (Fudan: Fudan University, China)
  • DePaul team: Sukprasan Rattanapani, Alexandru Iulian Orhean, Jacob Furst, and Daniela Raicu
    (DePaul: DePaul University, US)
  • BSRC team: Dimitra Panou, Alexandros C. Dimopoulos, Manolis Koubarakis, and Martin Reczko
    (BSRC: Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming”, Greece)
  • CMU team: John Gibson and Eric Nyberg
    (CMU: Carnegie Mellon University, US & Liberia)
  • UR team: Samy Ateia and Udo Kruschwitz
    (UR: University of Regensburg, Germany)

Task MultiClinSum-2: Multilingual Clinical Summarization

The teams that topped the competition were:
 
Micro F-Measure
  First place Second place
MultiClinSum-en ixa-sum NLP4Health
MultiClinSum-es ixa-sum NLP4Health
MultiClinSum-fr ixa-sum NLP4Health
MultiClinSum-pt NLP4Health ixa-sum
MultiClinSum-it ixa-sum -
MultiClinSum-ca ixa-sum -
MultiClinSum-ro ixa-sum RaRaMi
MultiClinSum-de ixa-sum -
MultiClinSum-nl ixa-sum MediScribes
MultiClinSum-ru PsychAI-Discovery-Lab -
MultiClinSum-sv PsychAI-Discovery-Lab -

Teams (Task MultiClinSum-2):
  • ixa-sum team: Ane Varela, Arantza Casillas, Julene Viña, Nuria Lebeña, and Maite Oronoz
    (ixa-sum: University of the Basque Country, Spain)
  • PsychAI-Discovery-Lab team: Muhammad Aqeel
    (PsychAI-Discovery-Lab: Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Pakistan)
  • NLP4Health team: Moutushi Roy and Dipankar Das
    (NLP4Health: Jadavpur University, India)
  • RaRaMi team: Radu Marin, Mihaita Lacusteanu, and Rares-Alexandru Iancu
    (RaRaMi: University of Bucharest, Romania)
  • MediScribes team: Maaike de Boer, Quirine Smit, and Roos Bakker
    (MediScribes: TNO, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, & Leiden University, Netherlands)

Task BioNNE-R: Nested Relation Extraction in Russian and English

The teams that topped the competition were:
 
Bilingual NRE
  First place Second place
F1-score LODAC-NII savvafq
English NRE
  First place Second place
F1-score ELiRF-UPV LODAC-NII
Russian NRE
  First place Second place
F1-score LODAC-NII HSE NLP

Teams (Task BioNNE-R):
  • LODAC-NII team: Lakshan Karunathilake, Shixiong Zhao, and Hideaki Takeda
    (LODAC-NII: National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
  • ELiRF-UPV team: Pere Marco-Garcia, Vicent Ahuir, Marc Hurtado-Beneyto, and Antonio Molina-Marco
    (ELiRF-UPV: Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
  • savvafq team: Savva Blinov
    (savvafq: Higher School of Economics, Russia)
  • HSE NLP team: Airat Valiev
    (HSE NLP: Higher School of Economics, Russia)

 


Task ElCardioCC: Clinical Coding in Cardiology

The teams that topped the competition were:
 
Multi-label Classification for Automated Clinical Coding
  First place Second place
F1-score UoM Baymax

Teams (Task ElCardioCC):
  • UoM team: Nikolaos Strafiotis, Panteleimon Stanimeros, Vasiliki Katsara, Georgios Chalkias, Glykeria Tsavlidou, Stelios Magalios, Effrosyni Nalmpanti, and Panteleimon Stamatakis
    (UoM: University of Macedonia, Greece)
  • Baymax team: Georgios Chalkias, Panagiotis Amanatiadis, Glykeria Tsavlidou, and Sotirios Malamas
    (Baymax: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and University of Macedonia, Greece)

 


Task GutBrainIE: Gut-Brain Interplay Information Extraction

The teams that topped the competition were:
 
NER (Subtask 6.1.1)
  First place Second place
Micro F1 YesYoung Graphwise
NERD (Subtask 6.1.2)
  First place Second place
Micro F1 YesYoung Graphwise
Mention-level RE (Subtask 6.2.1)
  First place Second place
Micro F1 YesYoung SMTE
Concept-level RE (Subtask 6.2.2)
  First place Second place
Micro F1 YesYoung Graphwise

 
Honorable mention (out of competition): the TWIX team (Marco Martinelli and Laura Menotti) achieved top results in all subtasks.
 
Teams (Task GutBrainIE):
  • YesYoung team: Yeyang Liu, Zhaohang Niu, and Chunyu Li
    (YesYoung: University of Zurich, Switzerland & Universiti Malaya, Malaysia)
  • Graphwise team: Ivelina Nikolova, Mario Kuzmanov, Aleksis Datseris, Maria Barouh, Rute Costa, Chiara Barbero, Matilde Canelas, and Margarida Ramos
    (Graphwise: Graphwise, Bulgaria, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, & Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
  • SMTE team: Sofia Maule and Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
    (SMTE: University of Padua, Italy)