Program

BioASQ 2026 Workshop Schedule

 

Tuesday September 22, 2026
10:00-10:30 BioASQ Poster Session* | Coffee break
Session 1. 14:00-15:30

  • Welcome

  • Overview of BioASQ Tasks 14b and Synergy14 in CLEF2026.
    • Anastasios Nentidis, Georgios Katsimpras, Anastasia Krithara and Georgios Paliouras
  • Cost-Pragmatic Quality Gating and Selection–Fusion Multi-Model Combiners for BioASQ Phase A+/B.
    • Dima Galat and Marian-Andrei Rizoiu
  • MedCascade: A Multi-Stage Cascaded Retrieval and Generation System for Biomedical Question Answering.
    • Artem Avdeiko, Pelinsu Topaloglu, Teresa Vaccari and Georgios Peikos
  • Retrieval-Bound Generation: Lean RAG pipelines for Biomedical QA.
    • Diogo Antunes
  • Can LLMs Refine Their Own Keyword Search Strategies for Biomedical RAG?.
    • Samy Ateia and Udo Kruschwitz
  • BioASQ Phase B: Exploring Diverse Optimization Techniques and Testing Frameworks for Enhanced Bio-Answering Performance.
    • Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, Yen-Sung Chiu, Cheng-Yu Hou and Chen-Hau Hsu
  • RMC at BioASQ 2026: A local RAG approach for end-to-end Biomedical QA.
    • Daniel Sims, Kassandra Williams and Sam Henry
15:30-16:00 BioASQ Poster Session* | Coffee break
Session 2. 16:00-17:30
  • Health-NLP at the BioASQ 2026 Task B on Biomedical Semantic QA and GutBrainIE on Gut-Brain interplay Information Extraction Tasks.
    • Sebastian Volz, Bileam Scheuvens, Shrestha Ghosh and Harrisen Scells
  • Overview of MultiClinSum-2 at CLEF 2026: Data, Evaluation, and Results for Multilingual Clinical Case Report Summarization Across 15 Languages.
    • Miguel Rodríguez-Ortega, Eduard Rodríguez-López, Salvador Lima-López, Audrey Mash and Martin Krallinger
  • Multilingual Clinical Summarization with LLMs: A Comparative Study of GRPO and Dynamic One-Shot Approaches.
    • Ane Varela, Arantza Casillas, Julene Viña, Nuria Lebeña and Maite Oronoz
  • MediScribes at MultiClinSUM2: A Dutch-English Clinical Summarization System.
    • Maaike de Boer, Quirine Smit and Roos Bakker
  • Overview of the BioASQ BioNNE-R Task on Nested Biomedical Relation Extraction at CLEF 2026.
    • Igor Rozhkov, Natalia Loukachevitch and Elena Tutubalina
  • ELiRF-UPV at BioNNE-R Task: Transfer Learning on Transformer-based Models for Biomedical Relation Classification.
    • Pere Marco Garcia, Lluís F. Hurtado and Antonio Molina Marco
  • HSE NLP Team at BioASQ BioNNE-R: When Dev Lies: Domain Pretraining, Calibration, and the Limits of LLM Augmentation for Biomedical Nested Relation Extraction.
    • Airat Valiev
Wednesday September 23, 2026
Session 3. 14:00-15:30
  • Overview of ElCardioCC Task on Clinical Coding in Cardiology at BioASQ 2026.
    • Dimitris Dimitriadis, Vasiliki Patsiou, Eleonora Stoikopoulou, Achilleas Toumpas, Alexandra Bekiaridou, Athanasios Samaras, George Giannakoulas and Grigorios Tsoumakas
  • Hierarchy-Aware Dense Retrieval for Greek Cardiology Clinical Coding at ELCardioCC 2026.
    • Fernando Gallego-Donoso, Salvador Lima-López, Eulalia Farré-Maduell, Lorenzo Pratesi and Martin Krallinger
  • A Multi-Component System for Multi-Label ICD-10 Classification of Greek Cardiology Discharge Summaries.
    • Nikolaos Strafiotis, Panteleimon Stanimeros, Vasiliki Katsara, Georgios Chalkias, Glykeria Tsavlidou, Stelios Magalios, Effrosyni Nalmpanti and Panteleimon Stamatakis
  • Overview of GutBrainIE @CLEF 2026: Gut-Brain Interplay Information Extraction.
    • Marco Martinelli, Vanessa Bonato, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Guglielmo Faggioli, Nicola Ferro, Benedikt Kantz, Ornella Irrera, Stefano Marchesin, Simone Merlo, Laura Menotti, Riccardo Michelotto, Gaia Tussardi, Federica Vezzani, Peter Waldert and Gianmaria Silvello
  • NightSun at CLEF2026 GutBrainIE: A First-Place System for NER, Entity Linking, and Relation Extraction.
    • Yeyang Liu, Zhaohang Niu and Chunyu Li
  • You Don't Need a Frontier LLM: Domain-Specific Encoders can compete in Gut–Brain Information Extraction.
    • Ivelina Nikolova, Mario Kuzmanov, Aleksis Datseris, Maria Barouh, Rute Costa, Chiara Barbero, Matilde Canelas and Margarida Ramos
  • GetGut: A Multi-Stage Pipeline for Gut-Brain Axis Information Extraction.
    • Sophus Jørgensen, Ernesto Garavito Molina, Juan Manuel Rodriguez and Daniele Dell'Aglio
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
Session 4. 16:00-17:30
  • Invited Talk: TBA

  • Awards and Discussion

  • Closing

* List of posters in the BioASQ poster sessions, Tuesday, September 22, 2026:

  • q-MAP: sensitive QA systems with mapped question embeddings.
    • Dimitra Panou, Alexandros C. Dimopoulos, Manolis Koubarakis and Martin Reczko
  • Contrastive Learning for Efficient Reranking in Task 14B of the CLEF 2026 BioASQ Track.
    • Jan Bakker and Jaap Kamps
  • Sparse Retrieval with Cross-Encoder Reranking and Heuristic Snippet Scoring for Biomedical Question Answering.
    • Aikaterini Maria Kouti and Ioannis Refanidis
  • BIT. UA at BioASQ 14B: Modular Retrieval with pg_textsearch and Qdrant, and Agent-Based Answer Generation.
    • André Ribeiro, Rúben Garrido, Alexander Christiansen, Richard A. A. Jonker and Sérgio Matos
  • Few but Deep vs. Many but Shallow: Comparing Licensed and Free Tool Sets for Agentic Biomedical Question Answering.
    • Nhung Nguyen, Ahmed Elnagger, Aditya Kashyap and Timothy Schultz
  • Agentic RAG with open-weight LLMs for Biomedical QA Task 14b.
    • Rohan Leekha, Daniel Gwon and Leslie Shing
  • MeSH for BioASQ Task 14B : A Lightweight Knowledge-Enhanced RAG Pipeline.
    • Liuya Sun, Hua Yang, Jie Tang, Paulo Quaresma, Yifan Jia and Zhuowen Li
  • A Multistage Evidence Retrieval System for BioASQ Task 14b: Hybrid Retrieval, Reranking, and Snippet Selection.
    • Yun Wang
  • A Multi-Stage Retrieval and Ensemble-Based Answer Generation Pipeline for Biomedical QA in BioASQ Task 14b.
    • Aniza Shahzadi and Muhammad Wasim
  • Retrieval-Augmented Biomedical Question Answering with Weak-Question Recovery and Neural Reranking for BioASQ Task 14b.
    • Xueying Zhao, Lee Mai and Balaji Anandganesh
  • LAB Note of BioASQ 14b Phase A/A+, and Phase B Challenge.
    • Yi-Chieh Hung, Jen-Chieh Han, Hsi-Chuan Hung and Richard Tzong-Han Tsai
  • LLM-Guided RAG: A Biomedical Retrieval System for BioASQ Synergy 2026.
    • Sukprasan Rattanapani, Alexandru Iulian Orhean, Jacob Furst and Daniela Raicu
  • SynapFlow at BioASQ @CLEF 2026: Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Diversity-Enhanced Hybrid Retrieval.
    • John Gibson and Eric Nyberg
  • How Far Can a Lightweight Multilingual Model Go on Clinical Summarization?.
    • Rabiu Ibrahim Abdullahi and Idris Abdulmumin
  • RaRaMi at MultiClinSum-2: Cross-Backbone QLoRA Fine-Tuning for Romanian Clinical Case-Report Summarization.
    • Radu Marin, Mihaita Lacusteanu and Rares-Alexandru Iancu
  • NLP4Health at MultiClinSum-2 2026: Multilingual Clinical Case Report Summarization with Qwen Prompting and QLoRA.
    • Moutushi Roy and Dipankar Das
  • InfoLab-FEUP at MultiClinSum-2: Agentic Multilingual Clinical Case Summarization with Biomedical Concept Enrichment.
    • Artur Oliveira, Tiago Rodrigues and Carla Teixeira Lopes
  • UMUTeam at BioASQ 2026: Evaluating Medical-Domain Continual Pretraining for Spanish Clinical Case Report Summarization.
    • Tomás Bernal Beltrán, Jorge Gomez Navalon, Ronghao Pan, Pedro José Vivancos-Vicente and José Antonio García-Díaz
  • LSI_UNED at BioNNE-R 2026: Improving Biomedical Relation Extraction Through Candidate Space Reduction.
    • Alicia Ramirez-Arrabe, Juan Martinez-Romo and Andres Duque
  • System Description for BioNNE-R at BioASQ 2026: OpenNRE with Pre-trained Language Models and Threshold Calibration for Biomedical Nested Relation Extraction.
    • Savva Blinov
  • Graph-Augmented Typed-Marker Models for Nested Biomedical Relation Extraction.
    • Lakshan Karunathilake, Shixiong Zhao and Hideaki Takeda
  • Baymax at CLEF 2026: Leveraging XLM-RoBERTa and Semantic Label Embeddings for Greek Clinical Coding.
    • Georgios Chalkias, Panagiotis Amanatiadis, Glykeria Tsavlidou and Sotirios Malamas
  • LSI_UNED at ELCardioCC 2026: Leveraging Clinical Entity Extraction for ICD-10 Coding in Greek Cardiology Reports.
    • Alicia Ramirez-Arrabe, Andres Duque and Juan Martinez-Romo
  • Exploring Data Augmentation Strategies for Biomedical NER: A Study on the GutBrainIE 2026 Shared Task.
    • Miguel Lourenço and Andre Lamurias
  • SMTE – GutBrainIE @CLEF 2026: Biomedical Named Entity Recognition and Mention-Level Relation Extraction for the Gut-Brain Axis.
    • Sofia Maule and Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
  • GutHub: Tackling the GutBrainIE Task Through Entity recognition, Disambiguation, and Relation Extraction.
    • Andreas Cornelius Rydder, Simon Bech Christensen, Dziugas Austys, Juan Manuel Rodriguez and Daniele Dell'Aglio
  • CHASTE: Constrained Holistic Annotator System with onTological Entities.
    • Benedikt Kantz, Peter Waldert, Stefan Lengauer and Tobias Schreck
  • TEXA at GutBrainIE 2026: A Multi-Stage Approach for Entity Recognition, Linking, and Relation Extraction in Gut-Brain Biomedical Abstracts.
    • Danil Smirnov, Bita Khashechian and Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
  • TWIX: a Two-Stage Approach for End-To-End Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction.
    • Marco Martinelli and Laura Menotti