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BioASQ: A Challenge on Large-Scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing and Question Answering

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Multimodal Retrieval in the Medical Domain (MRDM 2015)

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Abstract

BioASQ is a series of challenges that aims to assess the performance of information systems in supporting two tasks that are central to the biomedical question answering process: (a) the indexing of large volumes of unlabelled data, primarily scientific articles, with biomedical concepts, (b) the processing of biomedical questions and the generation of answers and supporting material. In this paper, the main results of the first two BioASQ challenges are presented.

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    http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pmresources.html.

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    http://linkedlifedata.com/.

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    http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/.

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    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed.

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    http://ii.nlm.nih.gov/MTI/index.shtml.

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  1. LIG, Grenoble, France/Coffreo, University of Grenoble Alpes, Clermont-Ferrand, France

    Georgios Balikas

  2. Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR Demokritos, Athens, Greece

    Anastasia Krithara & George Paliouras

  3. R&D Department, VISEO, Grenoble, France

    Ioannis Partalas

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  2. University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Sierre, Switzerland

    Oscar Alfonso Jimenez del Toro

  3. Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

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  4. Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Georg Langs

  5. ETH Zentrum, Zürich, Switzerland

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Balikas, G., Krithara, A., Partalas, I., Paliouras, G. (2015). BioASQ: A Challenge on Large-Scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing and Question Answering. In: Müller, H., Jimenez del Toro, O., Hanbury, A., Langs, G., Foncubierta Rodriguez, A. (eds) Multimodal Retrieval in the Medical Domain. MRDM 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9059. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24471-6_3

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