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* Task 13b will begin in 2025! *

What's new in BioASQ13-Task b

Other notes-Task B

We strongly encourage you to go through the guidelines and pay attention to the changes as well as in the format of the answers you will submit.

Task 13B Guidelines

For a comprehensive description of the BioASQ tasks please visit bioasq.org.

Task 13B will use benchmark datasets containing development and test questions, in English, along with gold standard (reference) answers. The benchmark datasets are being constructed by a team of biomedical experts from around Europe. Consult BioASQ Deliverable 3.7 for more information on the construction of the benchmark datasets.

Systems may participate in any of the two or, ideally, both phases.
The rest of the guidelines is organized in sections. You can expand a section by clicking on it.

+ Types of questions

+ Required Answers in Phase A

+ Required Answers in Phase A+

+ Required Answers in Phase B

+ Download Training Dataset

+ Test dataset and evaluation process

+ Designated resources for Phase A

+ JSON format of the datasets

+ Systems

+ Continuous Space Word Vectors

*Data from NLM are distributed based on the conditions described here. License Code: 8283NLM123.
If you used data obtained from the BioASQ challenges please support us by reporting BioASQ in your acknowledgements and citing our papers:

An overview of the BIOASQ large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering competition: George Tsatsaronis, Georgios Balikas, Prodromos Malakasiotis, Ioannis Partalas, Matthias Zschunke, Michael R Alvers, Dirk Weissenborn, Anastasia Krithara, Sergios Petridis, Dimitris Polychronopoulos, Yannis Almirantis, John Pavlopoulos, Nicolas Baskiotis, Patrick Gallinari, Thierry Artiéres, Axel Ngonga, Norman Heino, Eric Gaussier, Liliana Barrio-Alvers, Michael Schroeder, Ion Androutsopoulos and Georgios Paliouras, in BMC bioinformatics, 2015 (bib).

BioASQ-QA: A manually curated corpus for Biomedical Question Answering: Anastasia Krithara, Anastasios Nentidis, Konstantinos Bougiatiotis and Georgios Paliouras in Sci Data 10, 2023 (bib).

The road from manual to automatic semantic indexing of biomedical literature: a 10 years journey: Anastasia Krithara, James G. MorkAnastasios Nentidis, and Georgios Paliouras in Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, vol. 8, 2023 (bib).