BioASQ challenge - call for participation in new task batches

[George Paliouras]

[ please distribute - apologies for multiple postings ]

BioASQ challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and
question answering 
(BioASQ workshop after CLEF 2013 in Valencia, Spain on September 27,
2013)

                    Web site: http://bioasq.org/
                 twitter: https://twitter.com/bioasq

The third batch of Task 1A (biomedical semantic indexing) and the second
batch of Task 1B (biomedical question answering) will start on Monday
July 15 and Wednesday July 17, respectively.
Task 1A is related to:
* hierarchical text classification,
* semantic annotation of text.
Task 1B is related to:
* information retrieval, including document and snippet retrieval,
* question answering for document collections and ontologies,
* summarization from documents and structured information.

Each batch of each task is independent of the previous ones and its
winners will be awarded separate prizes.
Therefore, you are encouraged to take part in the new batches, even if
you did not participate in the previous ones.

Registration will remain open until the end of the challenge in August. 
In order to register and participate, please visit the BioASQ
participants area: http://bioasq.lip6.fr/

Additionally, in an effort to improve the challenge, we have developed
the survey at http://goo.gl/28shg. The survey consists of only 4
questions and should take less than 2 mins. We would greatly appreciate
your participation.

Good luck from the BioASQ team!

The BioASQ challenge and workshop are organised by the BioASQ project,
supported by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme
(Grant Agreement No. 318652).