Program

BioASQ 2025 Workshop Schedule

 

Tuesday September 9, 2025
Session 1. 14:15-15:45
  • Welcome

  • Overview of BioASQ Tasks 13b and Synergy13 in CLEF2025.
    • Anastasios Nentidis, Georgios Katsimpras, Anastasia Krithara and Georgios Paliouras
  • Beyond Retrieval: Ensembling Cross-Encoders and GPT Rerankers with LLMs for Biomedical QA.
    • Shashank Verma, Fengyi Jiang and Xiangning Xue
  • Can Language Models Critique Themselves? Investigating Self-Feedback for Retrieval Augmented Generation at BioASQ 2025.
    • Samy Ateia and Udo Kruschwitz
  • BIT.UA at BioASQ 13B: Revisiting Evaluation, DPRF-Enhanced Retrieval and Fine-Tuned LLMs.
    • Richard A. A. Jonker, Tiago Almeida, João Almeida and Sérgio Matos
  • UniTor at BioASQ 2025: Modular Biomedical QA with Synthetic Snippets and Multiple Task Answer Generation.
    • Federico Borazio, Andriy Shcherbakov, Danilo Croce and Roberto Basili
  • SINAI at BioASQ @CLEF 2025: A Multi-Stage RAG Pipeline for Biomedical Semantic Question Answering.
    • Sara Dueñas-Romero, L. Alfonso Ureña-López and Eugenio Martínez-Cámara
  • Harnessing Collective Intelligence of LLMs for Robust Biomedical QA: A Multi-Model Approach.
    • Dimitra Panou, Alexandros C. Dimopoulos, Manolis Koubarakis and Martin Reczko
15:45-16:30 Poster Session* | Coffee break
Session 2. 16:30-18:00
Wednesday September 10, 2025
Session 3. 14:15-15:45
  • Overview of MultiClinSum task at BioASQ 2025: evaluation of clinical case summarization strategies for multiple languages: data, evaluation, resources and results.
    • Miguel Rodríguez-Ortega, Eduard Rodríguez-López, Salvador Lima-López, Carlos Escolano, Audrey Mash, Maite Melero, Lorenzo Pratesi, Laura Vigil-Gimenez, Leticia Fernandez-Lopez, Eulàlia Farré-Maduell and Martin Krallinger
  • MedGemma-Sum-Pt: A Lightweight Model for Portuguese Clinical Summarization.
    • Elisa Terumi Rubel Schneider, Fernando Henrique Schneider, Emerson Cabrera Paraiso, Alceu Souza Britto Jr and Rafael Menelau Oliveira Cruz
  • Enhancing Multilingual Medical Summarization via Contextual Keyword Augmentation.
    • Md Shahidul Salim, Lianne Fu, Arav Adikesh Ramakrishnan, Sunjae Kwon, Zonghai Yao and Hong Yu
  • Overview of the BioASQ BioNNE-L Task on Biomedical Nested Entity Linking in CLEF 2025.
    • Andrey Sakhovskiy, Natalia Loukachevitch and Elena Tutubalina
  • Hybrid Re-ranking for Biomedical Entity Linking using SapBERT Embeddings: A High-Performance System for BioNNE-L 2025-1.
    • Daniel Peña Gnecco, Jairo Serrano, Edwin Puertas and Juan Carlos Martinez-Santos
  • Overview of ElCardioCC Task on Clinical Coding in Cardiology at BioASQ 2025.
    • Dimitris Dimitriadis, Vasiliki Patsiou, Eleonora Stoikopoulou, Achilleas Toumpas, Alkis Kipouros, Alexandra Bekiaridou, Konstantinos Barmpagiannos, Anthi Vasilopoulou, Antonios Barmpagiannos, Athanasios Samaras, Dimitrios Papadopoulos, George Giannakoulas and Grigorios Tsoumakas
  • Enigma @ ELCardioCC: Bridging NER and ICD-10 Entity Linking - A Hybrid Method for Greek Clinical Narratives.
    • Boris Velichkov, Aleksis Datseris, Sylvia Vassileva and Svetla Boytcheva
15:45-16:30 Poster Session* | Coffee break
Session 4. 16:30-18:00
  • Overview of GutBrainIE @CLEF 2025: Gut-Brain Interplay Information Extraction.
    • Marco Martinelli, Gianmaria Silvello, Vanessa Bonato, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Ornella Irrera, Stefano Marchesin, Laura Menotti and Federica Vezzani
  • Understanding Gut-Brain Interplay in Scientific Literature: A Hybrid Approach from Classification to Generative LLM Reasoning.
    • Chaeeun Lee, Simona E. Doneva, Maria Juliana Rodriguez-Cubillos, Elisa Castagnari, Antoine D. Lain, Joram M. Posma and T. Ian Simpson
  • Graphwise @ CLEF-2025 GutBrainIE: Towards Automated Discovery of Gut-Brain Interactions - Deep Learning for NER and Relation Extraction from PubMed Abstracts.
    • Aleksis Datseris, Mario Kuzmanov, Ivelina Nikolova-Koleva, Dimitar Taskov and Svetla Boytcheva
  • GutUZH at CLEF2025 BioASQ Task 6: a Method of SOTA Performance with the Best Results at GutBrainIE NER Subtask 1.
    • Jinyi Han and Yeyang Liu
  • Trusting Gut Instincts: Transformer-Based Extraction of Structured Data from Gut-Brain Axis Publications.
    • Lasse Ryge Andersen, Mikkel Hagerup Dolmer, Marius Ihlen Gardshodn, Juan Manuel Rodriguez and Daniele Dell'Aglio
  • LYX_DMIIP_FDU At BioASQ 2025: Utilizing BERT Embeddings For Biomedical Text Mining.
    • Yuxuan Liu and Shanfeng Zhu
  • Closing

* List of posters:

  • Constrained Linked Entity ANnotation using RAG (CLEANR).
    • Benedikt Kantz, Stefan Lengauer, Peter Waldert and Tobias Schreck
  • NCU-IISR: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Approach for BioASQ 13b Phase A and A+.
    • Jen-Chieh Han, Bing-Chen Chih, Hsi-Chuan Hung and Richard Tzong-Han Tsai
  • SCIRE at BioASQ 2025: LLM Driven Biomedical Named Entity Recognition for GutBrainIE 2025.
    • Harsh Prakash Gupta and Ritwik Banerjee
  • AQAMS and AQAMS2: Multi Agent Systems for Biomedical Question Answering.
    • Johanna Angulo and Víctor Yeste
  • Clinical Entity Recognition and Linking in Greek Discharge Letters using Multilingual-LLM-Based Multi-Stage System.
    • Bor-Woei Huang
  • NCU-IISR: Biomedical Question Answering via Gemini and GPT APIs in the BioASQ 13b Phase B Challenge.
    • Bing-Chen Chih, Jen-Chieh Han, Hsi-Chuan Hung and Richard Tzong-Han Tsai
  • Applying DeepSeek to BioASQ Task 13B: Using Supervised Fine-Tuning and Few-Shot Learning.
    • Jie Tang, Hua Yang, Kai Xiong, Hanyang Li, Paulo Quaresma, Hongbin Yu, Wenbo Zhang and Mingzhou Song
  • From Named Entities to Relations: End-to-End Biomedical Information Extraction.
    • Ron Keinan, Amir David Nissan Cohen and Reut Tsarfaty
  • Development of a Biomedical Question Answering System Based on Transformer Models.
    • Lila López, Juan C. Martinez-Santos and Edwin Puertas
  • Prompting Matters: Snippet-Aware Strategies for Biomedical QA with LLMs in BioASQ 13b.
    • Hajung Kim, Hoonick Lee, Yewon Cho, Jungwoo Park, Jueon Park, Soyon Park, Yan Ting Chok, Seungheun Baek, Donghyeon Lee and Jaewoo Kang
  • Named Entity Recognition with GLiNER and Relation Extraction with LLMs.
    • Samuel Piron and Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
  • BIBERT-Pipe on Biomedical Nested Named Entity Linking at BioASQ 2025.
    • Chunyu Li, Xindi Zheng and Siqi Liu
  • NLP @VCU at BioASQ2025: Information Extraction on the GutBrainIE dataset.
    • Scott Taylor, Charlie Dil, Aaron Shah, Jannat, Cyd Oldham, Ayush Upadhyay, Joanne Varughese, Nicole Yazbeck and Bridget T. McInnes
  • Are Smaller Open-Weight LLMs Closing the Gap to Proprietary Models for Biomedical Question Answering?.
    • Damian Stachura, Joanna Konieczna and Artur Nowak
  • Biomedical Semantic Question Answering - Answering Systems Using Different LLMs for Subtasks.
    • Samitinjaya and Dipankar Das
  • Enhancing Biomedical Named Entity Recognition using GLiNER-BioMed with Targeted Dictionary-Based Post-processing for BioASQ 2025 task 6.
    • Ritesh Mehta
  • Comparing CRF vs BERT Models for Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction.
    • Lorenzo Pamio and Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
  • lasigeBioTM at BioASQ25 Task GutBrainIE - Lean Large Language Models with Syntactic Features.
    • Sofia I. R. Conceição, Paulo R. C. Lopes and Francisco M. Couto
  • lasigeBioTM: A Lean Biomedical QA System Empowered by Structured Knowledge.
    • Paulo R. C. Lopes, Sofia I. R. Conceição, Maria Fernandes and Francisco M. Couto
  • Multilingual and Nested Biomedical Named Entity Normalization via Candidate Retrieval and Lightweight Large Language Model Disambiguation.
    • Antoine D. Lain, Chaeeun Lee, Simona E. Doneva, Maria Juliana Rodriguez-Cubillos, Elisa Castagnari, T. Ian Simpson and Joram M. Posma
  • Exploring Retrieval-Reranking and LLM-Based Answer Generation for Biomedical QA.
    • Poojan Vachharajani
  • Multilingual Embedding and Prompt-Driven Approaches for Named Entity Recognition, Entity Linking, and Clinical Code Prediction in Greek Discharge Summaries.
    • Poojan Vachharajani
  • Navigating Partial UMLS Terminology: GAT Embeddings and Confidence Analysis for Multilingual Concept Linking.
    • Albina Burlova
  • LLM Ensemble for RAG: Role of context length in zero-shot Question Answering for BioASQ Challenge.
    • Dima Galat and Diego Molla-Aliod
  • Using Decoder-Based Distillation for Enhancing Multilingual Clinical Case Report Summarization.
    • Nicolay Rusnachenko, Xiaoxiao Liu, Jian Chang and Jian Jun Zhang
  • ExtraSum @ MultiClinSum: Extractive Summarization of English, Spanish, French and Portuguese Clinical Case Reports.
    • Soukaina Rhazzafe, Simon Colreavy-Donnelly and Nikola S. Nikolov
  • Agentic MCS: A Multilingual Clinical Summarization Framework.
    • Johanna Angulo and Víctor Yeste
  • MaLei at MultiClinSUM: Summarisation of Clinical Documents using Perspective-Aware Iterative Self-Prompting with LLMs.
    • Libo Ren, Yee Man Ng and Lifeng Han
  • Group Relative Policy Optimization for Spanish Clinical Case Report Summarization.
    • Georgi Grazhdanski
  • pjmathematician at MultiClinSUM 2025: A Novel Automated Prompt Optimization Framework for Multilingual Clinical Summarization.
    • Poojan Vachharajani