<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-:18j" class="gmail-Am gmail-aiL gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Cuerpo del mensaje" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" tabindex="1" style="direction:ltr;min-height:247px" aria-controls=":1b0" aria-expanded="false"><div><div style="margin:1em 0px;font-size:10pt">(Apologies for cross-posting)</div><p style="margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt;direction:ltr;text-align:center;line-height:1.44"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:10pt;color:black;font-weight:700">CFP: ToxHabits Shared Task </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:10pt;color:black">(BioCreative IX will be colocated with </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><a href="https://2025.ijcai.org/" id="m_-5807077734143739081OWA53a5e83b-e8e9-2f01-0a33-1266a0a07b56" title="https://2025.ijcai.org/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px">IJCAI 2025</a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:10pt;color:black"> in Montreal, CA) </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;direction:ltr;text-align:center;line-height:1.44"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:10pt;color:black;font-weight:700">Named entity recognition of toxic habits including substance abuse, smoking & alcohol consumption in clinical texts</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;direction:ltr;text-align:center;line-height:1.44;padding-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://temu.bsc.es/toxhabits/" id="m_-5807077734143739081OWAbd006170-5bfc-7292-9094-044dfd7b1059" title="https://temu.bsc.es/toxhabits/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px">https://temu.bsc.es/toxhabits/</a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:10pt;color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;direction:ltr;text-align:justify;line-height:1.44;padding-top:10pt;padding-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:10pt;color:black">The ToxHabits track focuses on the automatic detection of toxic habit entity mentions in clinical case reports written in Spanish. We also plan to release a multilingual version of the dataset, including versions in English and other languages.</span></p><div style="margin:1em 0px;font-size:10pt"><b>🔹 Key Links:</b></div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>Main website:</b> <a href="https://temu.bsc.es/toxhabits/" id="m_-5807077734143739081OWA5ed334a4-6264-15d5-9267-2d4e82787301" title="https://temu.bsc.es/toxhabits/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px">https://temu.bsc.es/toxhabits/</a></div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>Registration:</b> <a href="https://temu.bsc.es/toxhabits/registration/" id="m_-5807077734143739081OWAaeb80094-c8e8-04ee-5cbd-1ba72110ea43" title="https://temu.bsc.es/toxhabits/registration/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px">https://temu.bsc.es/toxhabits/registration/</a></div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>Data download (Train & Test):</b> <a href="https://temu.bsc.es/toxhabits/data/" id="m_-5807077734143739081OWA1fcb3102-2cbe-21e6-704b-d3aef320eb2e" title="https://temu.bsc.es/toxhabits/data/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px">https://temu.bsc.es/toxhabits/data/</a></div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>Submission instructions:</b> <a href="https://temu.bsc.es/toxhabits/submission/" id="m_-5807077734143739081OWAa45ff1b3-91e2-66a3-2adb-e0a15e4675de" title="https://temu.bsc.es/toxhabits/submission/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px">https://temu.bsc.es/toxhabits/submission/</a></div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>Evaluation script:</b></div></li><ul><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><a href="https://github.com/nlp4bia-bsc/ToxHabits_evaluation_library" id="m_-5807077734143739081OWA6b5ac3d4-2d93-e875-e371-23d0c3b30b47" title="https://github.com/nlp4bia-bsc/ToxHabits_evaluation_library" target="_blank" style="margin:0px">https://github.com/nlp4bia-bsc/ToxHabits_evaluation_library</a></div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><a href="https://temu.bsc.es/toxhabits/evaluation/" id="m_-5807077734143739081OWA594d9ec2-341d-ddf9-c6a2-49f63e544287" title="https://temu.bsc.es/toxhabits/evaluation/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px">https://temu.bsc.es/toxhabits/evaluation/</a></div></li></ul><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>BioCreative IX site:</b> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/bionlp/biocreative" id="m_-5807077734143739081OWA4b1396ae-162d-0d6a-74b2-a3243148dd33" title="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/bionlp/biocreative" target="_blank" style="margin:0px">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/bionlp/biocreative</a></div></li></ul><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt"><b><br></b></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt"><b>Subtasks</b></div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><b>ToxNER (Subtask 1)</b></span><b>:</b></div><div style="margin:1em 0px">Detect spans and types of substance mentions (Tobacco, Alcohol, Drug, Cannabis).</div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><b>ToxUse (Subtask 2)</b></span><b>:</b></div><div style="margin:1em 0px">Detect spans and labels related to usage (Amount, Type, Frequency, Duration, Method, History).</div></li></ul><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt"><b><br></b></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt"><b> Timeline</b></div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>Train Set Released:</b> April 30, 2025</div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>Test Set Released:</b> May 26, 2025</div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><b><u>Submission Deadline:</u></b><u> </u><b><u>June 5, 2025 (AoE)</u></b></span></div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>Results Announcement:</b> June 6, 2025</div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>System Paper Deadline (BioCreative proceedings):</b> June 16, 2025</div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>Review Notification:</b> July 1, 2025</div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>IJCAI 2025 Conference:</b> August 16–22, 2025 (Montreal, Canada)</div></li></ul><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt"><b><br></b></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt"><b><br></b></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt"><b>💡 Motivation</b></div><div style="margin:1em 0px;font-size:10pt">Systems capable of detecting and characterizing toxic habits, including not only smoking and alcohol consumption but also various forms of drug or substance abuse, from medical text are crucial for nearly all healthcare data mining, medical AI, and predictive clinical applications. These toxic habits are critical for understanding disease risk, treatment planning, and patient outcomes.</div><div style="margin:1em 0px;font-size:10pt">In the United States alone, drug overdose deaths since 2000 are approaching one million. Globally, the burden of substance abuse is clear and growing. This highlights the urgent need for systematic extraction and characterization of toxic habit information from medical texts.</div><div style="margin:1em 0px;font-size:10pt">To address these challenges, the <b>ToxHabits shared task</b> has been proposed as part of the <b>BioCreative IX initiative</b>, co-located with <b>IJCAI 2025</b>.</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt"><b><br></b></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt"><b>Clinical Use Cases Include:</b></div><ol start="1"><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>Risk Assessment for Chronic Diseases</b></div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>Anesthesia and Surgical Planning</b></div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>Mental Health Diagnosis and Management</b></div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>Medication Metabolism and Drug Interactions</b></div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>Prenatal and Maternal Care</b></div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>Infectious Disease Screening and Prevention</b></div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>Liver Function and Hepatology</b></div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>Oncology: Risk and Treatment Planning</b></div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>Pain Management and Opioid Prescribing</b></div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>Emergency and Acute Care Triage</b></div></li></ol><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt"><b><br></b></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt"><b><br></b></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt"><b> Workshop Proceedings & Special Issue</b></div><div style="margin:1em 0px;font-size:10pt">Participating teams will be invited to contribute a <b>system description paper</b> to the <b>BioCreative IX Working Notes</b> and to give a <b>flash presentation</b> during the BioCreative session at IJCAI.<br>Top-performing teams may be invited to submit an extended version to a <b>special journal issue</b>.</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt"><b><br></b></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt"><b>All BioCreative IX Tracks</b></div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>Track 1:</b> MedHopQA</div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>Track 2:</b> Sentence Segmentation of Real-Life Clinical Notes</div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px"><b>Track 3:</b> ToxHabits</div></li></ul><div style="margin:1em 0px;font-size:10pt">Details: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/bionlp/biocreative9" id="m_-5807077734143739081OWAdb2dd67b-a3c1-8090-ae85-220e2dfab23c" title="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/bionlp/biocreative9" target="_blank" style="margin:0px">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/bionlp/biocreative9</a></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt"><b><br></b></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt"><b>Organizers</b></div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px">Wesam Al-Nabki, BSC, Spain</div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px">Gabriel Vayá-Abad, BSC, Spain</div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px">Eulàlia Farré-Maduell, BSC, Spain</div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px">Jan Rodríguez Miret, BSC, Spain</div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px">Martin Krallinger, BSC, Spain</div></li></ul><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt"><b><br></b></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:10pt"><b>Scientific Committee</b></div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px">Dina Demner-Fushman, NIH/NLM</div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px">Ozlem Uzuner, George Mason University</div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px">Asma Ben Abacha, Microsoft Health AI</div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px">Anastasios Nentidis, NCSR Demokritos</div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px">Anastasia Krithara, NCSR Demokritos</div></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:1em 0px">Lourdes Araujo, UNED</div></li></ul></div></div></div></di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