Call for Participation: ChEMU 2022 Chemical Reaction Patent Information Extraction task @ CLEF 2022
Karin Verspoor
Call
for Participation
ChEMU 2022: Cheminformatics Elsevier Melbourne Universities
Chemical Reaction Patent Information Extraction task @ CLEF 2022
http://chemu.eng.unimelb.edu.au/
Greetings,
We are pleased to invite you to join the ChEMU Chemical Patent Information Extraction tasks. ChEMU 2022 is an evaluation lab at the 12th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF-2022) at CLEF 2022, following on from the ChEMU 2020/2021 labs.
ChEMU 2022 will re-run all the four tasks from ChEMU 2020/2021 with a new task on semantic classification for tables as the fifth one. Together, the tasks support comprehensive automatic chemical patent analysis.
- Task 1: Expression-level information extraction
- Task 1a - Named Entity Recognition: This task involves identifying chemical compounds as well as their types in context, i.e., to assign the label of a chemical compound according to the role which the compound plays within a chemical reaction.
- Task 1b - Event Extraction: This task aims to extract event trigger detection and argument recognition from chemical reactions.
- Task 1c - Anaphora Resolution: This task requires identification of references between expressions in chemical patents.
- Task 2: Document-level information extraction
- Task 2a - Chemical Reaction Reference Resolution: Given a chemical reaction snippet, the task aims to find similar chemical reactions and general conditions that it refers to.
- Task 2b - Table Semantic Classification: This task is about categorising tables in chemical patents based on their contents.
Publications and workshop
As in previous CLEF labs, there will be an evaluation workshop allocated at CLEF 2022 where participating teams can present their systems and results. Moreover, participating teams will be invited to submit their system description papers for publication at the CLEF 2022 Working Notes proceedings. For previous working notes see:
- CLEF 2020 http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2696/
- ChEMU 2020 Overview at https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2021.654438/full
- CLEF 2021 http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2936/
- ChEMU 2021 Overview at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85251-1_20
We will also organise a special journal issue to publish extended versions of the ChEMU Lab system description papers.
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Participation and useful info
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Please register both with CLEF and directly on the ChEMU website.
- Registration for the ChEMU task at CLEF2022: https://clef2022-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/registrationForm.php
- ChEMU website and submission site: http://chemu.eng.unimelb.edu.au/
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Main ChEMU Track organizers
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Melbourne Team: The University of Melbourne and RMIT University
- Karin Verspoor (RMIT University and the University of Melbourne)
- Yuan Li (The University of Melbourne)
- Jiayuan He (RMIT University)
- Biaoyan Fang (The University of Melbourne)
- Zenan Zhai (The University of Melbourne)
- Hiyori Yoshikawa (Fujitsu and the University of Melbourne)
- Timothy Baldwin (The University of Melbourne)
- Trevor Cohn (The University of Melbourne)
Elsevier
- Saber A. Akhondi
- Camilo Thorne
- Christian Druckenbrodt
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Important Dates
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Nov 15, 2021 |
Lab registration opens |
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Dec 03, 2021 |
Training data release |
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Apr 22, 2022 |
Lab registration closes |
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May 1, 2022 |
Test data release |
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May 6, 2022 |
End of evaluation cycle and feedback for participants |
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May 27, 2022 |
Deadline for the submission of participant papers |
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Jun 13, 2022 |
Notification of acceptance for participant papers |
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Jul 1, 2022 |
Deadline for submission of camera-ready participant papers |
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Jul 18-22, 2022 |
Preview of working notes by authors |
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Sep 5-8, 2022 |
CLEF 2022 Conference |
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Professor Karin Verspoor
Executive Dean, School of Computing Technologies
RMIT University
Email: karin.v...@rmit.edu.au