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<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;text-align:center;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial" align="center"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">***
Call for Participation Cantemist: <br>
CANcer TExt Mining Shared Task (IberLEF - SEPLN 2020) ***<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;text-align:center;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial" align="center"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;text-align:center;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial" align="center"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Named
Entity Recognition of Tumor Morphology Mentions and ICD-O-3 coding track at
SEPLN 2020<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;text-align:center;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial" align="center"><span lang="es"><a href="https://temu.bsc.es/cantemist/"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://temu.bsc.es/cantemist/</span></a><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span></span></span></u></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;text-align:center;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial" align="center"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span> </span><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;text-align:center;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial" align="center"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Plan TL Award for the Cantemist Track winners<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span lang="es">Following the success
of previous shared tasks we have coordinated in collaboration with the
BioCreative challenges (e.g. ChemDNER, ChemProt), BioNLP-OST (PharmaCoNER),
eHealth CLEF (CodiEsp) or IberLEF2019 (MEDDOCAN) we are organizing the first
shared task specifically focusing on named entity recognition of a critical type
of concept related to cancer, namely <strong><span style="font-family:Arial">tumor morphology</span></strong>,
called CANTEMIST. These previous efforts resulted in high impact datasets,
publications and new tools. </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">The Cantemist sub-tracks:<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">1.CANTEMIST-NER</span></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">: finding mentions of tumor morphology in oncology cases.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">2.CANTEMIST-NORM:</span></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"> recognition and mapping to concept
identifiers from ICD-O-3.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">3.CANTEMIST-CODING: </span></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">oncology clinical coding (multi-label classification) assigning
ICD-O-3 codes to clinical case documents.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Key information<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm 0.0001pt 47pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span>1.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Cantemist
web, info & detailed description: </span><span lang="es"><a href="https://temu.bsc.es/cantemist/"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://temu.bsc.es/cantemist/</span></a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 47pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span>2.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Registration
for Cantemist: </span><span lang="es"><a href="https://temu.bsc.es/cantemist/?p=3956"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://temu.bsc.es/cantemist/?p=3956</span></a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 47pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span>3.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Datasets: </span><span lang="es"><a href="https://zenodo.org/record/3878179"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://zenodo.org/record/3878179</span></a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Task motivation<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">There is a pressing need to apply natural language processing (NLP) and
text mining technologies to process clinical texts in order to unlock critical
information that enables better clinical decision-making. NLP can facilitate
the use of information from literature and electronic health records in
biomedical data analysis. <i>Understanding diseases requires the extraction of
certain key entities like diseases, treatments or symptoms</i> and their
attributes from textual data, as has become clear from the recent COVID-19
(SARS-CoV-2, coronavirus disease) pandemic, which showed the current struggle
in processing clinical documents written in various languages. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">With over <b>470 million</b> native speakers, there is a worldwide
interest in processing medical texts in Spanish (every 10 minutes, tens of
thousands of EHRs are produced just in Spain). Such technologies also have the
potential of being <b>adapted to handle other languages</b>, like Italian,
German, French or even English.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Results of systems capable of automatically processing clinical texts
are not only of interest for the medical user community or researchers working
on basic and applied health-related disciplines, but are also demanded by the
pharmaceutical industry and ultimately by patients. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Due to the special relevance of cancer as one of the leading causes of
death and the growing healthcare expenditures for oncological treatments a
specific classification resource for oncology has been constructed by the WHO
known as International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (<b>ICD-O</b>). The
CIE-O has been used for over 25 years as a standard resource to code diagnosis
of neoplasms in tumor and cancer registries as well as pathology reports.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Important dates</span></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">June, 5: Train set and
guidelines release<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">June, 12: First development
set release <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">July, 3: Test and
Background set release<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Aug, 3: End of the
evaluation period<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Aug, 14: Paper submission<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Sep 1: Camera-ready paper
submission<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:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Sep 23-25: SEPLN
2020 Conference<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Publications and workshop<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">There
will be an <b>evaluation workshop allocated
at SEPLN 2020</b> 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 <b>SEPLN
2020 Working Notes proceedings</b>. For previous working notes see: </span><span lang="es"><a href="http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2421/"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2421/</span></a><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span></span></span></u></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Cantemist awards<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">There will be three awards for the top-scoring teams promoted by the Spanish Plan for the
Advancement of Language Technology (Plan TL) and the Barcelona Supercomputing
Center (BSC).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Main Track organizers<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm 0.0001pt 47pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span>●<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Martin Krallinger</span></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain</span><span lang="es"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 47pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span>●<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Antonio Miranda</span></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain</span><span lang="es"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 47pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span>●<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Eulália Farré</span></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain</span><span lang="es"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt 47pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span>●<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Jose
Antonio</span></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">, Hospital 12 de Octubre,
Madrid, Spain<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><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:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><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:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><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"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Scientific Committee<span></span></span></b></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:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;border:medium none;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Kirk
Roberts, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science
Center, USA<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;border:medium none;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Parminder
Bhatia, Amazon Health AI, USA<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;border:medium none;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Irene
Spasic, School of Computer Science & Informatics, co-Director of the Data
Innovation Research Institute, Cardiff University, UK<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;border:medium none;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Carlos Luis
Parra Calderón, Head of Technological Innovation, Virgen del Rocío University
Hospital, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, Spain<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;border:medium none;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Alfonso
Valencia Herrera, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS), Spain<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;border:medium none;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Hercules
Dalianis, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University,
Sweden<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;border:medium none;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Kevin
Bretonnel Cohen, Colorado School of Medicine, USA; LIMSI, CNRS, Université
Paris-Saclay, France<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;border:medium none;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es">Karin
Verspoor, School of Computing and Information Systems, Health and Biomedical
Informatics Centre, University of Melbourne<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:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><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:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="es"><span> </span></span></p>
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