[Corpora-List] Announcement of Data Release

[Ozlem Uzuner]

           Announcement of Data Release and Final Call for Participation

                     Second i2b2 Shared-Task and Workshop
         Challenges in Natural Language Processing for Clinical Data
        Obesity Challenge (A Shared-Task on Obesity): Who's obese and what
  		co-morbidities do they (definitely/likely) have?

                    Data Release: 15 March, 2008 ** Data is released!!!**

                         Evaluation: 23-25 June, 2008
                     Paper Submission: 1 September, 2008
                 Workshop: 7 November, 2008 in Washington, DC

  	Organizer: Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside,
  		i2b2, a National Center for Biomedical Computing
  			Website: https://www.i2b2.org/NLP

  The obesity challenge is a multi-class, multi-label classification task
  focused on obesity and its co-morbidities. The data for the challenge consist
  of discharge summaries from Partners Healthcare. All records have been fully
  de-identified. Obesity information and co-morbidities have been marked at a
  document level as present, absent, questionable, or unmentioned in the
  documents. For each patient, both textual judgments, i.e., what the text
  explicitly states about obesity and co-morbidities, and intuitive judgments,
  i.e., what the text implies about obesity and co-morbidities, are provided.
  The goal of the challenge is to evaluate systems on their ability to
  recognize whether a patient is obese and what co-morbidities they exhibit.

  The obesity challenge opened to preregistration on February 1, 2008. Training
  data for the challenge will be released in installments; the first
  installment was released on March 15, 2008. The rest of the installments
  will follow soon after. Test data are scheduled to be released for only three
  days and will be used only for evaluation purposes. The results of the
  challenge will be presented at the workshop organized by i2b2.

  Schedule
  February 1, 2008    Preregistration Open
  March 15, 2008    Training Data Release
  April 15, 2008    Commitment to Participate in Challenge
  June 23, 2008    Test Data Release at 9am EST
  June 25, 2008    Output Due at Midnight EST
  August 1, 2008    Notification of Results to Each Participant
  September 1, 2008    Short Papers Due
  October 1, 2008    Invitations to Present at the Workshop
  November 7, 2008    Workshop

  Organizing Committee:
  Ozlem Uzuner, Chair, SUNY at Albany and Middle East Technical University
  Northern Cyprus Campus
  Peter Szolovits, MIT CSAIL
  Isaac Kohane, Partners Healthcare

  Questions on the challenge can be addressed to Ozlem Uzuner,
  i2b2nlp at albany.edu.

   
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