============================================ NTCIR-17 MedNLP-SC https://sociocom.naist.jp/mednlp-sc/ Registration due: June 1, 2023 ============================================

---------------- Invitation to the MedNLP-SC shared task ---------------- 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 to participate in the task.

--------------- Tasks ---------------- 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/

------------------ Schedule ------------------ * March 2023: Dataset release * June 1, 2023: Deadline for registration * July 10: Test data release * July 17, 2023: Deadline for submission of test runs (Formal Run) * August 1, 2023: Evaluation result 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)

------------------ Task Registration ------------------ Please register on the NTCIR-17 website: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-17/howto.html

------ Organizers ------ (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) 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