An overview of the BIOASQ large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering competition.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
PMID: 25925131

Abstract

BACKGROUND: This article provides an overview of the first BIOASQ challenge, a competition on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering (QA), which took place between March and September 2013. BIOASQ assesses the ability of systems to semantically index very large numbers of biomedical scientific articles, and to return concise and user-understandable answers to given natural language questions by combining information from biomedical articles and ontologies.

Authors

  • George Tsatsaronis
    Biotechnology Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. Electronic address: george.tsatsaronis@biotec.tu-dresden.de.
  • Georgios Balikas
    Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, 4 Place Jussieu, Paris, 75005, France. georgios.balikas@imag.fr.
  • Prodromos Malakasiotis
    Athens University of Economics and Business, Patission 76, Athens, 10434, Greece. rulller@gmail.com.
  • Ioannis Partalas
    Université Joseph Fourier, 621 Avenue Centrale, Saint-Martin-d'Héres, 38041, France. ioannis.partalas@imag.fr.
  • Matthias Zschunke
    Transinsight GmbH, Tatzberg 47-49, Dresden, 01307, Germany. mzschunke@transinsight.com.
  • Michael R Alvers
    Transinsight GmbH, Tatzberg 47-49, Dresden, 01307, Germany. malvers@transinsight.com.
  • Dirk Weissenborn
    Biotechnology Center, TU Dresden, 01307, Tatzberg 47-49, Dresden, Germany. dirk.weissenborn@gmail.com.
  • Anastasia Krithara
    NCSR Demokritos, Ag. Paraskevi, Athens, 60228, Greece. akrithara@iit.demokritos.gr.
  • Sergios Petridis
    NCSR Demokritos, Ag. Paraskevi, Athens, 60228, Greece. eserxio@gmail.com.
  • Dimitris Polychronopoulos
    NCSR Demokritos, Ag. Paraskevi, Athens, 60228, Greece. dpolychr@gmail.com.
  • Yannis Almirantis
    NCSR Demokritos, Ag. Paraskevi, Athens, 60228, Greece. yalmir@bio.demokritos.gr.
  • John Pavlopoulos
    Athens University of Economics and Business, Patission 76, Athens, 10434, Greece. annis@aueb.gr.
  • Nicolas Baskiotis
    Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, 4 Place Jussieu, Paris, 75005, France. nicolas.baskiotis@lip6.fr.
  • Patrick Gallinari
    Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, 4 Place Jussieu, Paris, 75005, France. Patrick.Gallinari@lip6.fr.
  • Thierry Artiéres
    Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, 4 Place Jussieu, Paris, 75005, France. thierry.artieres@lip6.fr.
  • Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
    Universität Leipzig, Augustusplatz 10, 04109, Leipzig, Germany. axel.ngonga@gmail.com.
  • Norman Heino
    Universität Leipzig, Augustusplatz 10, 04109, Leipzig, Germany. heino@informatik.uni-leipzig.de.
  • Eric Gaussier
    Université Joseph Fourier, 621 Avenue Centrale, Saint-Martin-d'Héres, 38041, France. eric.gaussier@imag.fr.
  • Liliana Barrio-Alvers
    Transinsight GmbH, Tatzberg 47-49, Dresden, 01307, Germany. lalvers@transinsight.com.
  • Michael Schroeder
    Biotechnology Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. Electronic address: ms@biotec.tu-dresden.de.
  • Ion Androutsopoulos
    Athens University of Economics and Business, Patission 76, Athens, 10434, Greece. ion@aueb.gr.
  • Georgios Paliouras
    Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR Demokritos, Patr. Gregoriou E and 27 Neapoleos St, Athens, 15341, Greece.

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