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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;text-align:center;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">*** Final CFP Cantemist: <br>
CANcer TExt Mining Shared Task (IberLEF - SEPLN 2020) ***</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;text-align:center;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria" align="center"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;text-align:center;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Named Entity Recognition of Tumor Morphology Mentions and
ICD-O-3 coding track at SEPLN 2020</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;text-align:center;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria" align="center"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://temu.bsc.es/cantemist/">https://temu.bsc.es/cantemist/</a></span></u></span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;text-align:center;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;text-align:center;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria" align="center"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Plan TL Award for the Cantemist Track winners</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">We are organizing
the first shared task specifically focusing on named entity recognition of a
critical type of concept related to cancer, namely <b>tumor morphology</b>. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The
Cantemist sub-tracks:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">CANTEMIST-NER</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">:
finding mentions of tumor morphology in clinical case documents.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">CANTEMIST-NORM:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> tumor
morphology mention recognition and mapping to concept identifiers from ICD-O-3.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">CANTEMIST-CODING:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">clinical coding (multi-label classification) assigning ICD-O-3
codes to clinical case documents.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Key
information</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Cantemist
web: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://temu.bsc.es/cantemist/">https://temu.bsc.es/cantemist/</a></span></u></span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Datasets:
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><a href="https://zenodo.org/record/3929739" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://zenodo.org/record/3929739</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Registration:
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://temu.bsc.es/cantemist/?p=3956">https://temu.bsc.es/cantemist/?p=3956</a></span></u></span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Task
motivation</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">There
is a pressing need to apply NLP to process clinical texts to unlock critical
information that enables better clinical decision-making. <i>Understanding
diseases requires the extraction of key entities like diseases, treatments or
symptoms</i> from textual data. This has become clear from the recent COVID-19
(SARS-CoV-2, coronavirus disease) pandemic, which showed the current struggle
in processing clinical documents. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Results
of systems capable of automatically processing clinical texts are of interest for
the medical user community, researchers, the pharmaceutical industry as well as
patients. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;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, the CANTEMIST track
tries to promote the development of cancer-relevant NER resources.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Important
dates</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">June, 5: Train set and
guidelines release</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">June, 12: First development
set release </span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">July, 3: Test and Background
set release</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Aug, 3: End of the evaluation
period</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Aug, 14: Paper submission</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Sep 1: Camera-ready paper
submission</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Sep 23-25: SEPLN 2020
Conference</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Publications
and workshop</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">There
will be an <b>online evaluation workshop at IberLEF/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>. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Cantemist
awards</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">We
will grant 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 style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Organizers</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<ul style="margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">Martin Krallinger</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">, Text Mining Unit, Barcelona
Supercomputing Center, Spain<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">Antonio Miranda</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">, Text Mining Unit, Barcelona
Supercomputing Center, Spain<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">Eulàlia Farré</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">, Text Mining Unit, Barcelona
Supercomputing Center, Spain<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">Jose Antonio Lopez-Martin</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">, Medical Oncology, Hospital
Universitario 12 de Octubre; Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de
Octubre (i+12), Spain<span></span></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0cm;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Scientific Committee</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>
<ul style="margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">Kirk Roberts</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">, School of Biomedical
Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center, USA<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">Parminder Bhatia</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">, Amazon Health AI, USA<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">Irene Spasic</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">, School of Computer Science &
Informatics, co-Director of the Data Innovation Research Institute,
Cardiff University, UK<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">Tristan Naumann</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">, Microsoft Research Healthcare
NExT, USA<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">Carlos Luis Parra Calderón</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">, Head of Technological
Innovation, Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, Institute of Biomedicine
of Seville, Spain<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">Ashish Tendulkar</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">, Google Research<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">Alfonso Valencia Herrera</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
(BSC-CNS), Spain<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">Hercules Dalianis</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">, Department of Computer and
Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">Kevin Bretonnel Cohen</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">, Colorado School of Medicine,
USA; LIMSI, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, France<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">Karin Verspoor</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">, School of Computing and
Information Systems, Health and Biomedical Informatics Centre, University
of Melbourne, Australia<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">Aurélie Névéol</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">, LIMSI-CNRS, Université
Paris-Sud, France<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">Goran Nenadic</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">, Department of Computer Science,
University of Manchester<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">Antonio Martinez</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">, Head Pathology, Director
National EQAS GCP, Spanish Society of Pathology, SEAP-IAP<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">Zhiyong Lu</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">, Deputy Director for Literature
Search, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">Ashish Tendulkar</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times">, Machine Learning Architect,
Google<span></span></span></li></ul>
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