Invitation to attend the BioASQ Workshop at CLEF2021 - the conference is free of charge.

[Luis Gasco Sanchez]

Dear Colleague,

We invite you to attend the presentation of the results of the 9th BioASQ Workshop, which will be presented as part of the Conference and Labs of The Evaluation Forum (CLEF2021) on 22-23 September. 

Due to COVID-19 circumstances, CLEF 2021 will be an online event broadcast from the  "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania, from 21-24 September 2021. The event will be completely free of charge, so we invite you to register at the link below and attend to see both the evaluation of these shared-tasks and the solutions of the participating teams.

This year, in addition to the participants' talks, we will have Dina Demner-Fushman, MD, PhD, as a keynote speaker, who will give an interesting talk on "Challenges in answering COVID-19 pandemic questions".

Please find below some additional info. about BioASQ:

• BioASQ Program: http://bioasq.org/workshop9/program

• CLEF Registration Link: https://forms.gle/bfcPqhaNDhnA1NiU8

• CLEF 2021 Working Notes: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2936/

• MESINESP website: https://temu.bsc.es/mesinesp2/

About BioASQ 

BioASQ  pushes for a solution to the information access problem of biomedical experts by setting up a challenge on biomedical semantic indexing and question answering (QA). 

In the 2021 edition, 4 tasks have been scheduled:

• Task Synergy On Biomedical Semantic QA For COVID-19

• Task A on Large-Scale Online Biomedical Semantic Indexing

• Task B on Biomedical Semantic QA

• Task MESINESP on Medical Semantic Indexing in Spanish 

A total of 52 participating teams have been involved in the tasks, generating more than 175 different systems and publishing 18 papers in the congress proceedings.

Overview, Invited speaker and Panel Discussion Schedule:

All times are in the CEST timezone:

9/22/2021 10:30-10:35	Welcome
9/22/2021  10:35-10:45	Overview of BioASQ Tasks 9a, 9b and Synergy in CLEF2021 Anastasios Nentidis, Georgios Katsimpras, Eirini Vandorou, Anastasia Krithara and Georgios Paliouras
9/22/2021 10:45-10:55	Overview of BioASQ 2021-MESINESP track. Evaluation of advance hierarchical classification techniques for scientific literature, patents and clinical trials. Luis Gasco, Anastasios Nentidis, Anastasia Krithara, Darryl Estrada-Zavala, Renato Toshiyuki Murasaki, Elena Primo-Peña, Cristina Bojo-Canales, Georgios Paliouras and Martin Krallinger
9/22/2021 14:55-16:00	Invited Talk: "Challenges in answering COVID-19 pandemic questions"  Dina Demner-Fushman, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, NLM, USA
9/22/2021 16:30-17:20	Panel Discussion
9/23/202 11:48-12:00	Award ANnouncements

Organisers

The BioASQ challenge is organized by Georgios Paliouras, Anastasia Krithara and Anastasios Nentidis from NCSR “Demokritos” (Greece). The Task MESINESP is co-organized by Martin Krallinger and Luis Gasco, from Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spain).

Sponsors

Google was a proud sponsor of the BioASQ Challenge in 2020. The ninth edition of BioASQ is also sponsored by the Atypon Systems inc. The MESINESP task is sponsored by the Plan de Impulso de las Tecnologías del Lenguaje (Plan TL) (SEDIA)

Looking forward to seeing you at CLEF2021!

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14/09/21 21:27:21