BioASQ challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering (part of the CLEF 2014 QA track to take place in Sheffield, UK, 15-18 September, 2014)
Web site: http://bioasq.org/
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CLEF-QA site: http://nlp.uned.es/clef-qa/
The BioASQ challenge consists of two different tasks (Task 2a and Task 2b).
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 2a (large-scale biomedical semantic indexing).
More information at http://bioasq.org/participate/challenges#Task2a.
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 2b (biomedical semantic QA).
More information at http://bioasq.org/participate/challenges#Task2b.
Important dates:
* Task 2a: You can join anytime from February 03, 2014 onwards. New data sets will be released weekly.
* Task 2b: You can join on ANY of the following dates:
- March 05, 2014
- March 19, 2014
- April 02, 2014
- April 16, 2014
- April 30, 2014.
Detailed schedule at http://bioasq.org/participate/schedule.
Training data for both tasks available at http://bioasq.lip6.fr/.
Prizes: http://www.bioasq.org/participate/prizes.
The BioASQ challenge and workshop are organised by the BioASQ project, supported by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme (Grant Agreement No. 318652).
Call for Participation: Second BioASQ challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering
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- BioASQ was supported by the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health under award number R13LM012214. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
- The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013, ICT-2011.4.4(d), Intelligent Information Management, Targeted Competition Framework) under grant agreement n° 318652.