Call for Participation: Second BioASQ challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering

[George Paliouras]

BioASQ challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question
answering
(part of the CLEF 2014 QA track to take place in Sheffield, UK, 15-18
September, 2014)

                   Web site: http://bioasq.org/ 
                twitter: https://twitter.com/bioasq 
             CLEF-QA site: http://nlp.uned.es/clef-qa/ 


The BioASQ challenge consists of two different tasks (Task 2a and Task 2b).

If you are interested in any of the following areas: 

* Large-scale and hierarchical classification
* Machine learning 
* Semantic Indexing, semantic similarity 

then you may want to participate in BioASQ Task 2a (large-scale biomedical
semantic indexing). 
More information at http://bioasq.org/participate/challenges#Task2a. 

If you are interested in any of the following areas:

* Question answering from unstructured and structured data
* Single and multi-document summarization
* Information retrieval and passage retrieval
* Semantic indexing, semantic similarity and reasoning
* Machine learning, classification, learning to rank
* Named-entity recognition and disambiguation 
* Information extraction, fact checking, relation extraction 
* Textual entailment
* Natural-language generation 

then you may want to participate in BioASQ Task 2b (biomedical semantic QA).

More information at http://bioasq.org/participate/challenges#Task2b. 

Important dates:
* Task 2a: You can join anytime from February 03, 2014 onwards. New data
sets will be released weekly. 
* Task 2b: You can join on ANY of the following dates:
  - March 05, 2014
  - March 19, 2014
  - April 02, 2014
  - April 16, 2014
  - April 30, 2014.

Detailed schedule at http://bioasq.org/participate/schedule. 

Training data for both tasks available at http://bioasq.lip6.fr/. 

Prizes: http://www.bioasq.org/participate/prizes. 

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).