MedProcNER: Medical Procedure Recognition

The task consists in extracting different aspects of information about clinical procedures. The Clinical Procedure Recognition is a named entity recognition task where participants are challenged to automatically detect mentions of clinical procedures in a corpus of clinical case reports in Spanish.

Publication
Nentidis, A. et al. (2023). Overview of BioASQ 2023: The Eleventh BioASQ Challenge on Large-Scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing and Question Answering. In: Arampatzis, A., et al. Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. CLEF 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14163. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42448-9_19
Competition
BioASQ 2023: Large-scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing and Question Answering
Language
Spanish
URL Task
http://www.bioasq.org/workshop2023
NLP topic
(named) entity recognition
Abstract task
Sequence labeling
Dataset
MedProcNER/ProcTEMIST corpus 2023
Year
2023
Publication link
https://link.springer.com/cha…
Ranking metric
Macro F1

Task results

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