Overview of the CLEF ehealth evaluation lab 2018

Hanna Suominen*, Liadh Kelly, Lorraine Goeuriot, Aurélie Névéol, Lionel Ramadier, Aude Robert, Evangelos Kanoulas, Rene Spijker, Leif Azzopardi, Dan Li, Jimmy, João Palotti, Guido Zuccon

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    Abstract

    In this paper, we provide an overview of the sixth annual edition of the CLEF eHealth evaluation lab. CLEF eHealth 2018 continues our evaluation resource building efforts around the easing and support of patients, their next-of-kins, clinical staff, and health scientists in understanding, accessing, and authoring eHealth information in a multilingual setting. This year’s lab offered three tasks: Task 1 on multilingual information extraction to extend from last year’s task on French and English corpora to French, Hungarian, and Italian; Task 2 on technologically assisted reviews in empirical medicine building on last year’s pilot task in English; and Task 3 on Consumer Health Search (CHS) in mono- and multilingual settings that builds on the 2013–17 Information Retrieval tasks. In total 28 teams took part in these tasks (14 in Task 1, 7 in Task 2 and 7 in Task 3). Herein, we describe the resources created for these tasks, outline our evaluation methodology adopted and provide a brief summary of participants of this year’s challenges and results obtained. As in previous years, the organizers have made data and tools associated with the lab tasks available for future research and development.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationExperimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction - 9th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2018, Proceedings
    EditorsEric SanJuan, Fionn Murtagh, Jian Yun Nie, Laure Soulier, Linda Cappellato, Patrice Bellot, Josiane Mothe, Chiraz Trabelsi, Nicola Ferro
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Pages286-301
    Number of pages16
    ISBN (Print)9783319989310
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2018
    Event9th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2018 - Avignon, France
    Duration: 10 Sept 201814 Sept 2018

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume11018 LNCS
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    Conference9th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2018
    Country/TerritoryFrance
    CityAvignon
    Period10/09/1814/09/18

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