<div dir="ltr"><span>CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</span><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>CLEF-ER 2013: Named Entity Recognition (NER) in
parallel multilingual
biomedical corpora <br>
(</span>aiming for terminology translation<span>)</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span><br>
Objectives:<span> </span></span></b><span>Multilingual
identification of mentions of named entities (attribution of
CUIs) in corpora,
where each corpus is either in English, French, German, Spanish,
and
Dutch.<span> </span>Currently patent
texts, titles of
Medline abstracts and EMEA documents serve as parallel corpora.
The mention annotations will be evaluated as part
of the challenge
and, in addition, the mention annotations will be analysed to
contribute to an
augmented biomedical terminological resource.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span><br>
Task:</span></b><span>
Participants produce mention annotations in a multilingual
document
where the annotations make explicit reference to entities, which
are specified
through a Concept Unique Identifier (CUI, from the UMLS).
Challenge
participants should at least contribute one non-English
annotated corpus and
have to register at the submission site (<a href="http://www.clefer.org/access-content" target="_blank"><span><span>http://www.clefer.org/access-content</span></span></a>).</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span><br>
A number of resources are available too: <br>
(1) a terminological resource (TR) containing English and
non-English concepts in
combination with their CUIs, <br>
(2) a selection of corpora in English, where the entity mentions
have been
annotated automatically with their CUIs, and <br>
(3) a selection of corpora in different languages other than
English (i.e., de,
fr, sp, nl) that have to be annotated with entity mentions and
their CUIs. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span><br>
Note</span></b><span>:
Each non-English corpus has a parallel English corpus. Not all
languages (de, fr, sp, nl) are available for each corpus.<span> </span>Parallel corpora offer the
opportunity to use
machine-translation or bi-lingual term identification methods.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>The results will be presented on the <a href="http://clefer.org/clef-er-workshop" target="_blank"><span><span>CLEF-ER workshop</span></span></a>,
which
is part of the <a href="http://www.clef2013.org/" target="_blank"><span><span>CL<span>EF 2013
Conference</span></span></span></a>,
23-26 September in Valencia, Spain.<span> </span>The
challenge is sponsored by the EU project “<a href="http://www.mantra-project.eu/" target="_blank"><span><span>Mantra</span></span></a>”.
For more
details on the task please visit <u><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.clefer.org/clef-er" target="_blank"><span style="color:black"><span style="color:black">http://www.clefer.org/</span></span></a></span></u>
or send an email to <a href="mailto:challenge@clefer.org" target="_blank"><span><span>challenge@clefer.org</span></span></a>.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span><br>
TIMELINE</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>15.12.2012: CLEF and CLEF-ER registration opens</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span><span> </span>5.02.2013:
English and
non-English corpora available, including consensus corpora in
English</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>30.04.2013: submission system for runs closes</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>30.06.2013: preliminary evaluation results released</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>15.07.2013: deadline for submission of working notes
papers</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>23.09.2013: CLEF 2013 conference starts (26.09.2013:
CLEF 2013
conference ends)</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span><br>
ORGANIZERS</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>Dr. Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Dr. Fabio Rinaldi, Dr.
Simon Clematide,
Institute of Computational Linguistics, Universität Zürich (Ch)</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>Prof. Dr. Udo Hahn, Johannes Hellrich, Julie
Laboratory, Universität
Jena (D)</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>Dr. Jan Kors, Dr. Erik van Mulligen, Erasmus University
Medical
Center, Rotterdam (Nl)</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>Dr. David Milward, Dr. Ian Lewin, Linguamatics Ltd,
Cambridge (UK)</span></p>
<span lang="DE">Dr.
Philip Daumke, Michael
Poprat, Averbis GmbH, Freiburg (D)</span></div>
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