BioASQ challenge: Call for participation

[George Paliouras]

Apologies for cross-posting

***  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 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 3b (biomedical semantic QA). 
More information at http://bioasq.org/participate/challenges#Task3b.

Important dates:
* Task 3a: You can join anytime from February 02, 2015 onwards. New data sets will be released weekly. 
* Task 3b: You can join on ANY of the following dates:
  - March 04, 2015
  - March 18, 2015
  - April 01, 2015
  - April 15, 2015
  - April 29, 2015.

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

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