[Event at CIG] FINAL CFP LivingNER 🐞 shared task: Named entity recognition, normalization & classification of species, pathogens and food

[Antonio Miranda]

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Call for Participation:
LivingNER 🐞 shared task: Named entity recognition, normalization &
classification of species, pathogens and food.


*IBERLEF/SEPLN2022 |A Coruña, Spain.*
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What to expect from this track

LivingNER 🐭  is the first track focusing specifically on the automatic
detection of species mentions (humans, plants, animals, insects,
pathogens), as well as their normalization to species taxonomy concepts
(NCBI Taxonomy @https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/taxonomy
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).

The detection, grounding, and classification of species mentions from
documents is highly relevant for a diversity of real-world applications in
medicine, biology, biodiversity, nutrition, and pharmacology. For instance,
it represents a key component for text mining applied to:

Pathogens and tropical diseases (and their mode of transmission)

Pets and farm animals (incl. health-related issues related to them)

Hospital-acquired or nosocomial infections

Animal causing injuries/diseases, bites, etc. on humans

Microorganisms, antibiotic resistance, microbiome

Allergies and food (incl. diets, intoxications, certain toxic habits,
drug-food interactions)
*Subtracks* 🏁

We foresee that participation in the LivingNER track will contribute to
generating resources that will improve the exploitation of clinical
unstructured data and thus unlock valuable health information, assist data
curation and facilitate quality evaluation and interpretability of species
mention detection systems.

Following the success of previously organized shared tasks (i.e. CANTEMIST,
PharmaCoNER, or MEDDOCAN), we are now launching the LivingNER 🐄  shared
task as part of the IberLEF 2022 evaluation initiative (co-located with
SEPLN 2022), with the following three sub-tracks:
[image: Ella Becker]
LivingNER-Clinical NER

*Automatic mention detection of species (Both human and non-human)*
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LivingNER-Species Norm

*Finding mentions of species and mapping them to their corresponding NCBI
taxonomy concept identifiers.*
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LivingNER-Clinical IMPACT

*Classifying documents according to 4 axes of clinical relevance (pets/farm
animals, animal causing injuries, food, and nosocomial) and retrieving the
evidence supporting the classification.*
*What's NEW!!💥 (May 2022)*

We released *multilingual resources* to foster the development of
multilingual tools and generate systems not only for Spanish but also for
content in English and Romance languages (French, Portuguese, Catalan,
Italian, and
Romanian): LivingNER-English, LivingNER-Italian, LivingNER-French,
LivingNER-Portuguese, LivingNER-Catalan,
and LivingNER-Romanian.
*Language comparison SPA *🇪🇸* vs ENG *🇬🇧 *(click on the image to see
more)*
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*Resources 📦*
WEB
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DATA
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ANNOTATION GUIDELINES
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VOCABULARY
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Multilingual Dataset 💥
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*Schedule 🕗 (Updated)*

June 12th, 2022
End of the evaluation period

June 24th, 2022
Working paper submission

July 4th, 2022
Notification of acceptance (peer-view)

July  11th, 2022
Camera-ready system description

September 20th, 2022
IberLEF @ SEPLN 2022
*Scientific Committee.*
*Tome Eftimov*

 Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
*Irena Spasic*

Cardiff University, UK
*Kirk Roberts*

 University of Texas Health Science Center, USA
*Felipe Bravo*

University of Chile, Chile
*Karin Verspoor*

University of Melbourne, Australia
*Tristan Naumann*

Microsoft Research Healthcare NExT, USA
*Claire Nédellec*

University Paris-Saclay, INRAE, France
*Enea Parimbelli*

Assistant Professor at University of Pavia, Italy
*Casimiro Pio Carrino*

Research Engineer at Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
*Zhiyong Lu*

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), USA
*Ashish Tendulkar*

Google Research
*Rosa Estopà Bagot*

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
*Carlos Luis Parra Calderón*

Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, Spain
*Thierry Declerck*

Senior Consultant at DFKI GmbH, Germany
*Ernestina Menasalvas*

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
*Koldo Gojenola*

University of the Basque Country, Spain

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*ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED*
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Teams participating in LivingNER will be invited to contribute a systems
description paper for the IberLEF (SEPLN 2022) Working Notes proceedings
and a short presentation of their approach at the IberLEF 2022 workshop.

If you receive multiple emails for this same call for participation, We are
very sorry for the inconvenience.



-- 
*Antonio Miranda*
Biomedical Engineer at Barcelona Supercomputing Center
*Phone: 0034 649227310*
*Location: Madrid**, Spain*