TESTLINK evaluation task

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Call for participation

We invite you to participate in the TESTLINK task on the extraction of relations from clinical cases. The task mainly consists in identifying test results and measurements and linking them to the textual mentions of the laboratory tests and measurements from which they were obtained. As in example (1) below:

1.

Dicho paciente había sido sometido un año antes a una [biopsia] transrectal de próstata ecodirigida por sextantes que fue {negativa}.

Biopsia (test) – negativa (result)

TESTLINK (https://e3c.fbk.eu/testlinkiberlef) is organised in the context of IberLEF 2023 and proposes three different challenges: two tasks on monolingual datasets in Spanish and Basque and a third one requiring a multilingual approach.

The evaluation task has been set up in Codalab ( https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/12622). Participants are invited to submit their annotated file for evaluation through it. Each team is allowed to submit 2 runs. Assessment will be performed manually and the results will be posted and notified to the participants at the end of the evaluation period.

The datasets of all the challenges are based on the European Clinical Case Corpus (E3C), which consists of clinical cases in five European languages and is freely available (CC-BY-NC-4.0).

Remember that the twin challenge CLINKART is also on! CLINKART ( https://e3c.fbk.eu/clinkart) is organised in the context of Evalita 2023 and focuses on Italian. Training data is already available and the evaluation period will start shortly.

Join us in one or many of the proposed challenges!

The TESTLINK organisation team