CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2021

Lorraine Goeuriot*, Hanna Suominen, Liadh Kelly, Laura Alonso Alemany, Nicola Brew-Sam, Viviana Cotik, Darío Filippo, Gabriela Gonzalez Saez, Franco Luque, Philippe Mulhem, Gabriella Pasi, Roland Roller, Sandaru Seneviratne, Jorge Vivaldi, Marco Viviani, Chenchen Xu

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    Abstract

    Motivated by the ever increasing difficulties faced by laypeople in retrieving and digesting valid and relevant information to make health-centred decisions, the CLEF eHealth lab series has offered shared tasks to the community in the fields of Information Extraction (IE), management, and Information Retrieval (IR) since 2013. These tasks have attracted large participation and led to statistically significant improvements in processing quality. In 2021, CLEF eHealth is calling for participants to contribute to the following two tasks: Task 1 on IE focuses on IE from noisy text. Participants will identify and classify Named Entities in written ultrasonography reports, containing misspellings and inconsistencies, from a major public hospital in Argentina. Identified entities will then have to be classified, which can be very challenging as it requires to handle lexical variations. Task 2 is a novel extension of the most popular and established task on consumer health search (CHS), aiming at retrieving relevant, understandable, and credible information for patients and their next-of-kins. In this paper we describe recent advances in the fields of IE and IR, and the subsequent offerings of this years CLEF eHealth lab challenges.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationAdvances in Information Retrieval - 43rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2021, Proceedings
    EditorsDjoerd Hiemstra, Marie-Francine Moens, Josiane Mothe, Raffaele Perego, Martin Potthast, Fabrizio Sebastiani
    PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
    Pages593-600
    Number of pages8
    ISBN (Print)9783030722395
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2021
    Event43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2021 - Virtual, Online
    Duration: 28 Mar 20211 Apr 2021

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume12657 LNCS
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    Conference43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2021
    CityVirtual, Online
    Period28/03/211/04/21

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