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<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>The <b>CALBC Challenge</b> is now opened
(first cycle).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Participation is open to any team that
is either willing to submit annotations obtained with their own named entity
recognition or concept identification system or that wants to reproduce at a
large scale the annotations from the annotated corpus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>This challenge aims at creating a
broadly-scoped and diversely annotated biomedical text corpus (150,000 Medline
abstracts on immunology annotated with different semantic groups) by
automatically integrating the annotations from many different named entity
recognition and concept identification systems. The final goal will be to come
up with an automatically harmonized silver standard, rather than a manually
generated gold standard. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Participants will receive an assessment
of their results against the silver standard corpus (SSC) through a fully
automated analysis. They can submit through an automatic submission site to
receive feedback on their annotations. Submissions can be made and assessments
will be provided on a regular basis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Submitted annotations will be used to
generate a revised version of the SSC after the submission period is closed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>There will be a workshop in April 2010
at the EBI, Cambridge, U.K. to discuss the challenge outcome. In the
second half of 2010, the second round of the challenge will open.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US>Participants have to sign up to the
CALBC mailing list for the challenge: challenge@calbc.eu. Participants who want
to sign up to the mailing list should send a request to public@calbc.eu and
will receive login details thereafter. After login, you can access the
annotated corpus.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>For further information see www.calbc.eu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>If you are aware of any other mailing
lists where we should announce the challenge, please give us a hint.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>European Bioinformatics Institute,
Hinxton, U.K<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Kerstin Hornbostel<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Jena University Language &
Information Engineering (JULIE) Lab<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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