Connectionists: 2nd CFP MultiClinSum-2 (CLEF/BioASQ 2025): Multilingual Clinical Text Summarization Shared Task

[Martin Krallinger]

CFP MultiClinSum-2 (CLEF/BioASQ 2025): Multilingual Clinical Text
Summarization Shared Task

https://temu.bsc.es/multiclinsum

The MultiClinSum shared task focuses on the automatic summarization of
clinical texts in 15 languages

Key Information:

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   Web: <https://temu.bsc.es/multiclinsum>https://temu.bsc.es/multiclinsum2/
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   BioASQ 2026: http://bioasq.org/
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   CLEF 2026 Registration: https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/
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   MultiClinSum-2 sample set: https://zenodo.org/records/18663291


Motivation:

Iit is becoming increasingly challenging for healthcare professionals,
biomedical researchers, and patients to process lengthy clinical documents
to gain insights underlying patient conditions. This challenge applies not
only to clinical content in English but also for other languages. Use cases
of automatic clinical text summarization include summarization of EHRs into
key events (diagnoses, medications, and outcomes), medical literature
review (summarize key findings  from scientific articles), clinical trial
screening (summarization of  profiles for eligibility assessment covering
inclusion/exclusion criteria) or medical coding (summarization of main
diagnoses, and procedures for coding workflows).

MultiClinSum-2 addresses this need by focusing on the automatic
summarization of clinical case reports across 15 languages representing
approximately 1.6 billion native speakers globally:

English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Catalan, Norwegian,
Danish, Romanian, German, Greek, Dutch, Czech, and Swedish.

For evaluation purposes, automatically-generated summaries will be compared
against human-generated summaries written by the original clinical authors,
using Rouge-2 scores and  BERTScore for evaluation assessment.


Schedule

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   MultiClinSum Sample Set Release: April 9th
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   MultiClinSum Train/Dev Set Release: May 16th
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   MultiClinSum Test Set Texts Release: May 28th
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   Participant Test Predictions Deadline: June 2nd
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   Participant Evaluation Result Release: June 6th
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   Submission of Participant Papers Deadline: June 18th
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   Notification of Acceptance of Participant Papers: June 27th
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   Submission of Camera-ready Participant Papers Deadline: July 7th
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   BioASQ @ CLEF2025: September 9th-12th, 2025


Publications & Conference

Participating teams will be invited to contribute a short system
description paper for the CLEF 2025 proceedings


MultiClinSum Organizers

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   Salvador Lima-López BSC, Spain
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   Miguel Rodríguez-Ortega, BSC, Spain
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   Eduard Rodríguez-López, BSC, Spain
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   Carlos Escolano Peinado, BSC, Spain
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   Maite Melero Nogues, BSC, Spain
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   Martin Krallinger, BSC, Spain
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