An overview of the BIOASQ large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering competition

• Published in: BMC bioinformatics Vol. 16; no. 1; p. 138
• Main Authors: Tsatsaronis, George, Balikas, Georgios, Malakasiotis, Prodromos, Partalas, Ioannis, Zschunke, Matthias, Alvers, Michael R, Weissenborn, Dirk, Krithara, Anastasia, Petridis, Sergios, Polychronopoulos, Dimitris, Almirantis, Yannis, Pavlopoulos, John, Baskiotis, Nicolas, Gallinari, Patrick, Artiéres, Thierry, Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga, Heino, Norman, Gaussier, Eric, Barrio-Alvers, Liliana, Schroeder, Michael, Androutsopoulos, Ion, Paliouras, Georgios
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 30.04.2015; BioMed Central
• Subjects: Abstracting and Indexing as Topic - methods; Algorithms; Bioinformatics; Computer Science; Humans; Medical Subject Headings; National Library of Medicine (U.S.); Natural Language Processing; PubMed; Semantics; Software; United States; United States; BIOASQ Competition; Passage retrieval; ClassY; Hierarchical Text Classification; Information retrieval; Question answering; Semantic indexing; Multi-document text summarization

This article provides an overview of the first BIOASQ challenge, a competition on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering (QA), which took place between March and September 2013. BIOASQ assesses the ability of systems to semantically index very large numbers of biomedical sci...