ArchEHR-QA 2025 (pronounced "Archer"): BioNLP @ACL 2025 Shared Task on Grounded Question Answering (QA) from Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

Website: https://archehr-qa.github.io/

Responding to patients’ inbox messages through patient portals is one of the main contributors to increasing clinician burden. To this end, automatically generating answers to questions from patients considering their medical records is important. The objective of this shared task is to automatically answer patients’ questions given important clinical evidence from their electronic health records (EHRs).

Task Overview We propose the task of automatically generating answers to patients’ health-related questions that are grounded in the evidence from patients’ clinical notes. The dataset will consist of hand-curated realistic patient questions (submitted through a patient portal) and their corresponding clinician-rewritten versions (crafted to assist in formulating their responses). The task is to construct coherent answers or responses to input questions that must use and be grounded in the provided clinical note excerpts.

For more information and examples, please visit the shared task website at https://archehr-qa.github.io/.

Important Dates (Tentative)

* Release of the development dataset: February 25 (Tuesday), 2025 * Release of the public and hidden test datasets: March 25 (Tuesday), 2025 * Submission of system responses: April 25 (Friday), 2025 * Submission of shared task papers (optional): May 2 (Friday), 2025 * Notification of acceptance: May 10 (Saturday), 2025 * Camera-ready system papers due: May 20 (Tuesday), 2025 ↳ No extensions due to the ACL publication deadline * BioNLP Workshop Date: July 31 (Thursday) OR August 1 (Friday), 2025

We are also looking for people to join the program committee, where the responsibilities will include reviewing papers. If you are interested, please send an email to sarvesh.soni@nih.govmailto:sarvesh.soni@nih.gov.

Website: https://archehr-qa.github.io/ Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/archehr-qa Email: sarvesh.soni@nih.govmailto:sarvesh.soni@nih.gov

Looking forward to your participation,

Sarvesh Soni, National Library of Medicine, US Dina Demner-Fushman, National Library of Medicine, US