2nd CFP MultiClinSum-2 (CLEF/BioASQ 2025): Multilingual Clinical Text Summarization Shared Task
Martin Krallinger
CFP MultiClinSum-2 (CLEF/BioASQ 2025): Multilingual Clinical Text Summarization Shared Task
https://temu.bsc.es/multiclinsum
The MultiClinSum shared task focuses on the automatic summarization of clinical texts in 15 languages
Key Information:
BioASQ 2026: http://bioasq.org/
CLEF 2026 Registration: https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/
MultiClinSum-2 sample set: https://zenodo.org/records/18663291
Motivation:
Iit is becoming increasingly challenging for healthcare professionals, biomedical researchers, and patients to process lengthy clinical documents to gain insights underlying patient conditions. This challenge applies not only to clinical content in English but also for other languages. Use cases of automatic clinical text summarization include summarization of EHRs into key events (diagnoses, medications, and outcomes), medical literature review (summarize key findings from scientific articles), clinical trial screening (summarization of profiles for eligibility assessment covering inclusion/exclusion criteria) or medical coding (summarization of main diagnoses, and procedures for coding workflows).
MultiClinSum-2 addresses this need by focusing on the automatic summarization of clinical case reports across 15 languages representing approximately 1.6 billion native speakers globally:
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Catalan, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, German, Greek, Dutch, Czech, and Swedish.
For evaluation purposes, automatically-generated summaries will be compared against human-generated summaries written by the original clinical authors, using Rouge-2 scores and BERTScore for evaluation assessment.
Schedule
MultiClinSum Sample Set Release: April 9th
MultiClinSum Train/Dev Set Release: May 16th
MultiClinSum Test Set Texts Release: May 28th
Participant Test Predictions Deadline: June 2nd
Participant Evaluation Result Release: June 6th
Submission of Participant Papers Deadline: June 18th
Notification of Acceptance of Participant Papers: June 27th
Submission of Camera-ready Participant Papers Deadline: July 7th
BioASQ @ CLEF2025: September 9th-12th, 2025
Publications & Conference
Participating teams will be invited to contribute a short system description paper for the CLEF 2025 proceedings
MultiClinSum Organizers
Salvador Lima-López BSC, Spain
Miguel Rodríguez-Ortega, BSC, Spain
Eduard Rodríguez-López, BSC, Spain
Carlos Escolano Peinado, BSC, Spain
Maite Melero Nogues, BSC, Spain
Martin Krallinger, BSC, Spain