Abbreviation recognition and resolution

The task consists in finding abbreviation-definition pairs in Spanish clinical cases studies and to resolve abbreviations mentioned in text regardless whether its corresponding definition was mentioned in same document.

Publication
Ander Intxaurrondo, Martin Pérez-Pérez, Gael Pérez-Rodríguez, Jose Antonio López-Martín, Jesus Santamaría, Santiago de la Peña, Marta Villegas, Saber Ahmad Akhondi, Alfonso Valencia, Analia Lourenço, Martin Krallinger (2017) The Biomedical Abbreviation Recognition and Resolution (BARR) track: benchmarking, evaluation and importance of abbreviation recognition systems applied to Spanish biomedical abstracts. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Evaluation of Human Language Technologies for Iberian Languages (IberEval 2017).
Competition
Biomedical Abbreviation Recognition and Resolution
Language
Spanish
NLP topic
processing abbreviations
Abstract task
Sequence labeling
Dataset
BARR
Year
2017
Publication link
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1881/O…
Ranking metric
Micro F

Task results

System MicroPrecision MicroRecall MicroF1
UNED 0.8153 0.6093 0.6774
UC-III 0.7221 0.6178 0.6659
CNIO-ADRS 0.7905 0.5690 0.6617
CNIO-AB3P 0.8423 0.5329 0.6528
IBI-UPF-v4 0.7182 0.5032 0.5917

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