Call for Task Participation of Real-MedNLP: Real document-based Medical Natural Language Processing
"Medical natural language processing using real medical documents"

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     NTCIR-16 Real-MedNLP
https://sociocom.naist.jp/real-mednlp/
Registration Due: December 1, 2021
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We organize a medical language processing shared task using using real medical documents, Real-MedNLP. 
This task provides two types of data: medical case reports and radiology reports. 
Both corpora are cross-lingual (English and Japanese in parallel).

Sample data is available at https://sociocom.naist.jp/real-mednlp/
Please have a look at the sample data and consider participating in the task.

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Tasks
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Subtask 1: NER with 100 samples
Subtask 2: NER with guideline learning
Subtask 3: Application (see the web page for details)

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Future schedule
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* September 30, 2021: Dataset Release
* December 1, 2021: Registration Due
* January 2022: Full test (Formal Run)
* February 1, 2022: Evaluation Result Release to the participants
* February 1, 2022: Task overview paper release (draft)
* March 1, 2022: Submission due of participant papers
* May 1, 2022: Camera-ready participant paper due
* June 10-13, 2022: NTCIR-16 Conference (NII, Tokyo, Japan)
(At the NTCIR-16 Conference, online presentation will be available)

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Task Registration
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Please register on the NTCIR-16 website.
http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-16/howto.html

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Organizers
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Eiji Aramaki (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Shoko Wakamiya (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Shuntaro Yada (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Yuta Nakamura (University of Tokyo)

* Real-MedNLP contact: real-mednlp[at]is.naist.jp