BioASQ
A challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering
| Coordinatore | NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH "DEMOKRITOS"
Organization address
address: Patriarchou Gregoriou Str. contact info |
| 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
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH "DEMOKRITOS"
Organization address
address: Patriarchou Gregoriou Str. contact info |
EL (AGHIA PARASKEVI) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS - RESEARCH CENTER
Organization address
address: KEFALLINIAS STREET contact info |
EL (ATHENS) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
Organization address
address: RUE MICHEL -ANGE contact info |
FR (PARIS) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
TRANSINSIGHT GMBH
Organization address
address: TATZBERG contact info |
DE (DRESDEN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
UNIVERSITAET LEIPZIG
Organization address
address: RITTERSTRASSE contact info |
DE (LEIPZIG) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
UNIVERSITE JOSEPH FOURIER GRENOBLE 1
Organization address
address: Avenue Centrale, Domaine Universitaire contact info |
FR (GRENOBLE) | participant | 0.00 |
| 7 |
UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS 6
Organization address
address: Place Jussieu contact info |
FR (PARIS) | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
UNIVERSITE PIERRE MENDES FRANCE
Organization address
address: RUE DES UNIVERSITES contact info |
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.