🏃 FINAL CFP DISTEMIST Shared task: Named Entity Recognition and Normalization of diseases.

[Darryl Estrada]

Call for Participation: Detection and normalization of diseases mentions. CLEF 2022 | BOLOGNA, ITALY Register now

What to expect from this track DISTEMIST is the first track that focuses specifically on the automatic detection of disease mentions and their normalization (SNOMED CT) in Spanish clinical case documents. The DISTEMIST data was tested to develop disease taggers previously applied to a diversity of medical records. Disease mention detection systems have been implemented and used to process a diversity of content types, including scientific publications, clinical records, clinical trials, patient forums or social media, resulting in a component integrated into a diversity of practically relevant application types, such as:

Drug discovery, repurposing and off label indications  Disease outbreak monitoring/surveillance and epidemiology tools Extraction of disease phenotype or comorbidities Clinical coding of diagnosis Occupational health studies Pharmacogenomics

Subtracks   🏁 We foresee that participation in the DISTEMIST track will contribute to generate resources that will improve the exploitation of clinical unstructured data and thus unlock valuable health information, assist data curation and facilitate quality evaluation and interpretability of disease mention detection systems. Inspired by previous initiatives (n2c2, BioCreative) and shared tasks (CANTEMIST, PharmaCoNER, or CodiEsp), we are launching the DISTEMIST shared task as part of the BioASQ 2022 evaluation initiative (co-located with CLEF 2022), with the following two sub-tracks:

DISTEMIST-Entities Automatic mention detection of diseases. DISTEMIST-Linking Finding mentions of diseases and normalizing them to their Snomed-CT concept identifiers. What's NEW!!  💥 (May 2022) We released   multilingual resources   to foster the development of multilingual tools and generate systems not only for Spanish but also for content in English and Romance languages (French, Portuguese, Catalan, Italian and Romanian): DISTEMIST-English, DISTEMIST-Italian, DISTEMIST-French, DISTEMIST-Portuguese, DISTEMIST-Catalan and DISTEMIST-Romanian. Language comparison SPA   🇪🇸   vs ENG   🇬🇧 Resources   📦 WEB   DATA   ANNOTATION GUIDELINES GAZETTER MULTILINGUAL DATA SET   💥 Schedule   🕗 May 10th, 2022 Test Set Release May 15th, 2022 Participant Test Prediction Due May 27th, 2022 Working paper submission June 13th, 2022 Notification of acceptance (peer-view) July 1st, 2022 Camera-ready system descriptions September, 2022 BioASQ @ CLEF 2022

Scientific Committee  Ulf Leser Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Francisco Couto Universidade de Lisboa Jin-Dong Kim Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS), Japan Ozlem Uzuner George Mason University José Castaño Buenos Aires University Laura Furlong Universitat Pompeu Fabra Martin Hofmann-Apitius Universität Bonn Dina Demner-Fushman Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, US

INVOLVED ORGANIZATIONS

Teams participating in DISTEMIST will be invited to contribute a systems description paper for the BioASQ (CLEF 2022) Working Notes proceedings and a short presentation of their approach at the CLEF 2022 conference. If you receive multiple emails for this same call for participation, We are very sorry for the inconvenience.