BioASQ new tasks about to start

[George Paliouras]

BioASQ challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering
(part of the CLEF 2015 QA track to take place in Toulouse, France, 8-11 September, 2015)

                   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 3a and Task 3b).

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 3a (large-scale biomedical semantic indexing). 
More information at http://bioasq.org/participate/challenges#Task3a.

If you are working 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 BioASQ Task 3b (biomedical semantic QA) is relevant to your work and you are invited to participate. 

Important dates:
* Task 3a: Second batch is starting on March 9, 2015. New data sets will be released weekly and you can join anytime.  
* Task 3b: Starting in March 11, 2015 and releasing a new batch of test questions every two weeks.

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

Training data for both tasks available at http://participants-area.bioasq.org/