Dear Colleagues and Friends,
We are pleased to announce MedGenVidQA, a shared task co-located with BioNLP 2026. This challenge focuses on generative approaches to medical video question answering and aims to develop models for the following tasks:
- Task A: Retrieving relevant multimodal information for medical questions. - Task B: Locating visual segments as answers to medical questions within professional medical videos. - Task C: Generating multimodal question-answer pairs from medical videos.
For more details, please visit the shared task website: https://medgenvidqa.github.io/
Important Dates
- Release of training and validation datasets: Jan 16, 2026 - Release of multimodal corpus: Jan 30, 2026 - Release of test sets: Feb 16, 2026 - Run submission deadline: Mar 15, 2026 (Task A); Mar 31, 2026 (Tasks B and C) - Release of official results: Apr 10, 2026 - Paper submission deadline: Apr 24, 2026
We look forward to your participation. Please join our Google Group (https://groups.google.com/g/medgenvidqa2026) for important updates. If you have any questions, you may contact us through the Google Group or via email.
Thank you,
MedGenVidQA 2026 Organizers