Overview of the CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab 2021

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

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    Abstract

    In this paper, we provide an overview of the ninth annual edition of the CLEF eHealth evaluation lab. CLEF eHealth 2021 continues our evaluation resource building efforts around the easing and support of patients, their next-of-kins, health care professionals, and health scientists in understanding, accessing, and authoring electronic health information in a multilingual setting. The 2021 lab offered two tasks: Task 1 on multilingual Information Extraction (IE), this year extending to a corpus of Spanish radiology reports; and Task 2 on Consumer Health Search (CHS) that builds on the previous year’s Information Retrieval (IR) tasks. In total, 11 teams took part in these tasks (7 in Task 1 on IE and 4 in Task 2 on IR). Herein, we describe the resources created for these tasks and the evaluation methodology adopted, and we provide a brief summary of the participants of this year’s challenges as well as the results obtained. As in previous years, the organizers have made data, tools, and more specific overview papers associated with the lab tasks available for future research and development.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationExperimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction - 12th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2021, Proceedings
    EditorsK. Selçuk Candan, Bogdan Ionescu, Lorraine Goeuriot, Birger Larsen, Henning Müller, Alexis Joly, Maria Maistro, Florina Piroi, Guglielmo Faggioli, Nicola Ferro
    PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
    Pages308-323
    Number of pages16
    ISBN (Print)9783030852504
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2021
    Event12th International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages, CLEF 2021 - Virtual, Online
    Duration: 21 Sept 202124 Sept 2021

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume12880 LNCS
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    Conference12th International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages, CLEF 2021
    CityVirtual, Online
    Period21/09/2124/09/21

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