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NTCIR-17 MedNLP-SC
https://sociocom.naist.jp/mednlp-sc/
Registration due: June 26, 2023
Evaluation period starts July 10, 2023
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Invitation to the MedNLP-SC shared task
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Continuing the series of NTCIR Natural Language Processing shared tasks and
conferences, NTCIR-17 will be held in Tokyo on December 12-15, 2023. As in
previous editions, NTCIR-17 features the MedNLP task on medical NLP. This
year, MedNLP-SC is about Medical Natural Language Processing for Social
Media and Clinical Texts.
This task provides two types of data:
- social media (artificially created tweets) in Japanese, English, German,
and French in parallel;
- radiology reports in Japanese.
We invite you to explore the sample data at
https://sociocom.naist.jp/mednlp-sc/ and participate in the task.
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Tasks
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1) Social Media (SM) Subtask: Adverse drug event detection (ADE)
(Languages: Japanese, English, French, and German)
2) Radiology Report (RR) Subtask: TNM staging
(Language: Japanese)
More detail and examples are available at
https://sociocom.naist.jp/mednlp-sc/
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Schedule
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* March 2023: Train dataset initial release
* June 26, 2023: Deadline for registration
* June 26, 2023: Train dataset final release
* July 10: Test dataset release
* July 17, 2023: Deadline for submission of test runs (Formal Run)
* August 1, 2023: Evaluation results release to the participants
* August 1, 2023: Task overview paper release (draft)
* September 1, 2023: Deadline for submission of participant papers
* November 1, 2023: Deadline for camera-ready participant papers
* December 12-15, 2023: NTCIR-17 Conference (NII, Tokyo, Japan) (hybrid
event, online presentation will be available)
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Task Registration
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Please register on the NTCIR-17 website:
http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-17/howto.html
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Organizers
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(JAPAN)
Eiji Aramaki, Ph.D. (NAIST, Japan)
Yuta Nakamura, M.D. (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Shoko Wakamiya, Ph.D. (NAIST, Japan)
Shuntaro Yada, Ph.D. (NAIST, Japan)
Lis Weiji Kanashiro Pereira, Ph.D. (NAIST, Japan)
Shouhei Hanaoka, M.D., Ph.D. (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Gabriel Herman Bernardim Andrade (NAIST, Japan)
Faith Wavinya Mutinda (NAIST, Japan)
Noriki Nishida, Ph.D. (RIKEN, Japan)
Tomohiro Nishiyama (NAIST, Japan)
Hiroki Teranishi, Ph.D. (RIKEN, Japan)
Narumi Tokunaga (RIKEN, Japan)
Akiko Aizawa, Ph.D. (NII, Japan)
Yuji Matsumoto, Ph.D. (RIKEN, Japan)
(FRANCE)
Cyril Grouin, Ph.D. (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France)
Thomas Lavergne, Ph.D. (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France)
Aurélie Névéol, Ph.D. (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France)
Patrick Paroubek, Ph.D. (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France)
Hui-Syuan Yeh (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France)
Pierre Zweigenbaum, Ph.D. (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France)
(GERMANY)
Lisa Raithel (DFKI, Germany, TU Berlin, Germany, and Université
Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France)
Roland Roller, Ph.D. (DFKI, Germany)
Philippe Thomas, Ph.D. (DFKI, Germany)
* MedNLP-SC contact: mednlp-sc[at]is.naist.jp