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<p class="gmail-normal" style="text-align:center;border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial" align="center"><b><span style="color:black">*** Call for
Participation CodiEsp: Clinical Case Coding Task (eHealth CLEF 2020) ***<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="gmail-normal" style="text-align:center;border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial" align="center"><b><span style="color:black">CodiEsp (eHealth
CLEF– Multilingual Information Extraction) Shared Task on automatic assignment
of ICD10 codes (procedures, diagnosis) track at CLEF 2020 <span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="text-align:center;border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial" align="center"><a href="http://temu.bsc.es/codiesp">http://temu.bsc.es/codiesp</a><b><span style="color:black"> </span></b><a href="http://temu.bsc.es/meddocan" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><b><span style="color:windowtext"><span></span></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="gmail-normal" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial" align="center"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:black">Plan
TL Award for the CodiEsp Track <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">The CodiEsp sub-tracks: <span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><b>1.CodiEsp Diagnosis Coding sub-task (CodiEsp-D)</b>: will require
automatic ICD10-CM [CIE10 Diagnóstico] code assignment. <span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><b>2.CodiEsp Procedure Coding sub-task (CodiEsp-P):</b> will require automatic
ICD10-PCS [CIE10 Procedimiento] code assignment. <span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><b>3.CodiEsp Explainable AI Subtask (CodiEsp-X).</b> Systems are required
to submit the reference to the predicted codes (both ICD10-CM and ICD10-PCS). <br></p><p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><br></p><p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></b></p><p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></b></p><p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Task description<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Clinical coding consists in the <span>transformation (<span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">or
classification</span>) of
medical texts written by clinicians into a structured or coded format using
internationally recognized class codes. These codes describe a patient’s
diagnosis or treatment. This transformation is critical for </span><span lang="EN-GB">standardizing clinical records; </span><span lang="EN-GB">enable aetiology studies, monitor health
trends, epidemiology studies, </span><span>clinical research, decision-making or
even re-imbursement.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span>Due to the importance of this process,
there are now even specialized education programs and professional occupations
of persons employed as clinical coders or medical records technicians.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">As part of the eHealth CLEF (<a href="http://clef-ehealth.org">http://clef-ehealth.org</a>)
Multilingual Information Extraction Shared Task we organize<b> <span style="color:black">CodiEsp: Clinical Case Coding Task
(<a href="http://temu.bsc.es/codiesp">http://temu.bsc.es/codiesp</a>). </span></b>This task will address the automatic
extraction of chemical, drug, gene/protein mentions from clinical case studies
written in Spanish. <span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Participant systems have to
automatically assign ICD10 codes (CIE-10, in Spanish) to clinical case
documents, being evaluated against manually generated ICD10 codifications. <span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">In addition to the Spanish data we
will also include training, development and test set documents automatically
translated into English.<span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">We foresee that this task will be
influential not only in terms of determining the most competitive approaches
which might range from sophisticated term look-up to multi-class document
classification systems using machine learning approaches.<span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Participation and useful info</span></b><span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-normal" style="border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">1. CodiEsp web, info & detailed description: <a href="http://temu.bsc.es/codiesp/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">http://temu.bsc.es/codiesp/</a><span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">2. Registration for CodiEsp (Multilingual Information
Extraction eHealth track): <a href="http://temu.bsc.es/codiesp/index.php/2019/09/19/registration/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">http://temu.bsc.es/codiesp/index.php/2019/09/19/registration/</a><span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">3. Training and development set: <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/3633048%23.XjRNut-YU5k" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://zenodo.org/record/3633048#.XjRNut-YU5k</a><span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">4. Additional training resources: <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/3606626%23.XhyWLN-YU5k" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://zenodo.org/record/3606626#.XhyWLN-YU5k</a><span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Main CodiEsp Track organizers </span></b><span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">------------------------</span><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span> </span><b>Martin Krallinger</b>,
Barcelona Supercomputing Center.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times"><span>
</span><b>Antonio Miranda</b>, Barcelona Supercomputing Center.</span><br><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span> </span><b>Aitor
Gonzalez-Agirre</b>, Barcelona Supercomputing Center.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"></span></p><p class="gmail-normal" style="border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times"><span> <b>Marta</b></span><b> Villegs</b>, Barcelona Supercomputing Center.</span></p><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times"><span></span></span>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Important Dates</span></b><span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Jan
13 <span> </span><span> </span>Train,
development and additional training resources set release (Spanish)</span><span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span style="font-family:Calibri">February
12 Train, development set release (English machine translation)</span><span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span style="font-family:Calibri">May
3 <span> </span>End of evaluation <span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span style="font-family:Calibri">May
5 <span> </span>Results notified</span><span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">May<span>
</span>24 Paper
submission</span><span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Jun
28
Camera-ready paper submission</span><span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Sep 22-25 Conference
(Thessaloniki, Greece)</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-normal" style="border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Best regards,<span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span> </span><span> </span>Martin Krallinger<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:black"><span> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-normal" style="border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:black"><span>=======================================<br>Martin Krallinger, Dr.<br>--------------------------------------------------------------------<br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Head of Biological Text Mining Unit<br>Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)</span><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Oficina Técnica de sanidad del Plan TL<span><br></span> <span>=======================================</span></span></span></p>
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