🌟Your last chance to participate in the PerAnsSumm Shared Task, part of the CL4Health Workshop at NAACL 2025, one of the biggest and most prestigious NLP conferences! 🌟 Website: peranssumm.github.io

🩺 The Challenge: Healthcare CQA forums feature diverse user perspectives—personal stories, factual advice, and more. Traditional summarization methods often overlook this richness. Our task aims to create perspective-aware summaries that cater to real-world information needs.

Hurry Up!! Evaluation phase has begun!!

💰 Cash Prizes: - 1st Place: $100 - 2nd Place: $50

🚀 Get Started Quickly: We’ve got you covered with a starter code to simplify your journey and help you focus on innovating.

Tasks: - Task A: Identify and classify perspective-specific spans in answers. - Task B: Generate structured, perspective-specific summaries for question-answer threads.

📅 Key Dates: - Evaluation Phase! - Submission of Results: 1st February, 2025 - Release of final results: 5th February, 2025

🔗 Details & Registration: - More information: peranssumm.github.io - CodaBench Registration page: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/4312/

Take this opportunity to showcase your skills, collaborate with a vibrant community, and make a meaningful impact in healthcare NLP! 🌍✨

Contact us via email at sagarw38(a)uic.edu

Looking forward to your participation!

Best,

Organizers:

Shweta Yadav Assistant Professor of Computer Science University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)

Md. Shad Akhtar Assistant Professor (CSE) Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIITD)

Siddhant Agarwal PhD Student University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)