BioASQ

A challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering

Coordinatore	NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH "DEMOKRITOS"    more  Organization address address: Patriarchou Gregoriou Str. city: AGHIA PARASKEVI contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Marina Cognome: Fontara Email: send email Telefono: +30 210 6503037 Fax: 302107000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Greece [EL]
Totale costo	1˙379˙926 €
EC contributo	1˙270˙000 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	FP7-ICT-2011-8
Funding Scheme	CSA
Anno di inizio	2012
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2012-10-01   -   2014-09-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH "DEMOKRITOS"  Organization address address: Patriarchou Gregoriou Str. city: AGHIA PARASKEVI contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Marina Cognome: Fontara Email: send email Telefono: +30 210 6503037 Fax: 302107000000	EL (AGHIA PARASKEVI)	coordinator	0.00
2	ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS - RESEARCH CENTER  Organization address address: KEFALLINIAS STREET city: ATHENS contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: MARY Cognome: MARINOPOULOU Email: send email Telefono: +30 2 108665363 Fax: +30 2 108676265	EL (ATHENS)	participant	0.00
3	CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE  Organization address address: RUE MICHEL -ANGE city: PARIS contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Guillaume Cognome: ROCHET Email: send email Telefono: +33 4 76 88 10 05 Fax: +33 4 76 88 11 74	FR (PARIS)	participant	0.00
4	TRANSINSIGHT GMBH  Organization address address: TATZBERG city: DRESDEN contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Michael R. Cognome: Alvers Email: send email Telefono: 493518000000 Fax: +49 351 7965775	DE (DRESDEN)	participant	0.00
5	UNIVERSITAET LEIPZIG  Organization address address: RITTERSTRASSE city: LEIPZIG contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Nadine Cognome: Jänicke Email: send email Telefono: +49 341 9732232 Fax: +49 341 9732329	DE (LEIPZIG)	participant	0.00
6	UNIVERSITE JOSEPH FOURIER GRENOBLE 1  Organization address address: Avenue Centrale, Domaine Universitaire city: GRENOBLE contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Yann Cognome: LE ROUX Email: send email Telefono: +33 4 76514488 Fax: +33 4 76 514312	FR (GRENOBLE)	participant	0.00
7	UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS 6  Organization address address: Place Jussieu city: PARIS contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Stéphanie Cognome: ROSSARD Email: send email Telefono: +33 144279712 Fax: +33 144277467	FR (PARIS)	participant	0.00
8	UNIVERSITE PIERRE MENDES FRANCE  Organization address address: RUE DES UNIVERSITES city: SAINT-MARTIN-D'HERES contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Vanessa Cognome: DELFAU Email: send email Telefono: +33 4 76 82 84 51 Fax: +33 4 76 82 78 45	FR (SAINT-MARTIN-D'HERES)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

BioASQ will push for a solution to the information access problem of biomedical experts by setting up a challenge on biomedical semantic indexing and question answering (QA). Biomedical knowledge is dispersed in hundreds of heterogeneous knowledge sources and databases; many of them are connected on the Linked Open Data cloud. Biomedical experts, on the other hand, are in constant need of highly specialized information, which they cannot easily obtain. To address their needs, an information system needs to ``understand' the data and answer efficiently the experts' questions. Often, however, experts need responses that cannot be answered by a single information source. To integrate information from disparate sources, semantic indexing of the vast quantities of information is needed to bridge the experts' needs with the available data sources. Semantic indexing is currently achieved by manual annotation, and does not scale up. Automating this process requires large-scale classification of data into hierarchically organized concepts. QA methods capable of ``interpreting' questions in terms of the same concepts are also needed. BioASQ will push towards improved biomedical semantic indexing and QA via ambitious, yet realistic challenge tasks. The challenge will run in two stages, designed to (a) adapt traditional semantic indexing and QA methods to the needs of biomedical experts, and (b) collect feedback and improve the experimental setting itself. A large computational infrastructure, already available to the consortium, will be used to evaluate competing systems. The required datasets and evaluation measures will be established before the challenge. Biomedical experts will participate in the consortium, both as partners and through a supporting network of third parties.