articleBMC BioinformaticsApr 29, 2015GOLD OA

An overview of the BIOASQ large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering competition

GTGeorge TsatsaronisGBGeorgios BalikasPMProdromos MalakasiotisIPIoannis PartalasMZMatthias Zschunke

TU Dresden · Sorbonne Université · +4 more institutions

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Abstract

This article provides an overview of the first BioASQ challenge, a competition on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering (QA), which took place between March and September 2013. BioASQ assesses the ability of systems to semantically index very large numbers of biomedical scientific articles, and to return concise and user-understandable answers to given natural language questions by combining information from biomedical articles and ontologies. The 2013 BioASQ competition comprised two tasks, Task 1a and Task 1b. In Task 1a participants were asked to automatically annotate new PubMed documents with MeSH headings. Twelve teams participated in Task 1a, with a total of 46 system runs…

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  • Computer science
  • Information retrieval
  • Search engine indexing
  • Task (project management)
  • Benchmark (surveying)
  • Question answering
  • Paragraph
  • Controlled vocabulary
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