BioASQ new tasks about to start

[George Paliouras]

Apologies for cross-posting

***  BioASQ challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering ***
            part of the Joint Shared Task of the ACL 2016 BioNLP workshop, 
                         Humbold University, Berlin, Germany, 
       August 12: BioNLP workshop, August 13: Joint Shared Task workshop

                               Web site: http://bioasq.org/
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             BioNLP site: http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=BioNLP_Workshop

The BioASQ challenge consists of two different tasks (Task 4a and Task 4b).

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 4a (large-scale biomedical semantic indexing).
More information at http://bioasq.org/participate/challenges#Task4a.

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 4b (biomedical semantic QA).
More information at http://bioasq.org/participate/challenges#Task4b.

Important dates:
* Task 4a: You can join anytime from February 8, 2016 onwards. New data sets will be released weekly.
* Task 4b: You can join on ANY of the following dates:
  - March 9, 2016
  - March 23, 2016
  - April 6, 2016
  - April 20, 2016
  - May 4, 2016.

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

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