Connectionists: Invitation to attend the BioASQ Workshop at CLEF2021 - the conference is free of charge.

[Luis Gasco Sanchez]

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Dear Colleague,

We invite you to attend the presentation of the results of the 9th BioASQ
Workshop, which will be presented as part of the Conference and Labs of The
Evaluation Forum (CLEF2021) on 22-23 September.

Due to COVID-19 circumstances, CLEF 2021 will be an online event broadcast
from the  "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania, from 21-24
September 2021. The event will be completely free of charge, so we invite
you to register at the link <https://forms.gle/bfcPqhaNDhnA1NiU8> and
attend to see both the evaluation of these shared-tasks and the solutions
of the participating teams.

This year, in addition to the participants' talks, we will have Dina
Demner-Fushman, MD, PhD, as a keynote speaker, who will give an interesting
talk on "Challenges in answering COVID-19 pandemic questions"
<http://bioasq.org/workshop9/invited>.

Please find below some additional info. about BioASQ:

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   BioASQ Program: http://bioasq.org/workshop9/program
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   CLEF Registration Link: https://forms.gle/bfcPqhaNDhnA1NiU8
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   CLEF 2021 Working Notes: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2936/
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   MESINESP website: https://temu.bsc.es/mesinesp2/


About BioASQ

BioASQ pushes for a solution to the information access problem of
biomedical experts by setting up a challenge on biomedical semantic
indexing and question answering (QA).

In the 2021 edition, 4 tasks have been scheduled:


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   Task Synergy On Biomedical Semantic QA For COVID-19
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   Task A on Large-Scale Online Biomedical Semantic Indexing
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   Task B on Biomedical Semantic QA
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   Task MESINESP on Medical Semantic Indexing in Spanish

A total of 52 participating teams have been involved in the tasks,
generating more than 175 different systems and publishing 18 papers in the
congress proceedings.

Overview, Invited speaker and Panel Discussion Schedule:

All times are in the CEST timezone: <https://time.is/CEST>

9/22/2021 10:30-10:35

Welcome

9/22/2021  10:35-10:45

Overview of BioASQ Tasks 9a, 9b and Synergy in CLEF2021

Anastasios Nentidis, Georgios Katsimpras, Eirini Vandorou, Anastasia
Krithara and Georgios Paliouras

9/22/2021 10:45-10:55

Overview of BioASQ 2021-MESINESP track. Evaluation of advance hierarchical
classification techniques for scientific literature, patents and clinical
trials.

Luis Gasco, Anastasios Nentidis, Anastasia Krithara, Darryl Estrada-Zavala,
Renato Toshiyuki Murasaki, Elena Primo-Peña, Cristina Bojo-Canales,
Georgios Paliouras and Martin Krallinger

9/22/2021 14:55-16:00

Invited Talk: "Challenges in answering COVID-19 pandemic questions"

Dina Demner-Fushman, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical
Communications, NLM, USA

9/22/2021 16:30-17:20

Panel Discussion

9/23/202 11:48-12:00

Award ANnouncements

Organizers

The BioASQ challenge is organized by Georgios Paliouras, Anastasia Krithara
and Anastasios Nentidis from NCSR “Demokritos” (Greece). The Task MESINESP
is co-organized by Martin Krallinger and Luis Gasco, from Barcelona
Supercomputing Center (Spain).

Sponsors

Google was a proud sponsor of the BioASQ Challenge in 2020. The ninth
edition of BioASQ is also sponsored by the Atypon Systems inc. The MESINESP
task is sponsored by the Plan de Impulso de las Tecnologías del Lenguaje
(Plan TL) (SEDIA)

Looking forward to seeing you at CLEF2021!




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