Email Martin Krallinger to: encargo-pln-life@bsc.es


  1. Q: What is the goal of the shared task?
    The goal is to predict the annotations (or codes) of the documents in the test and background sets.

  2. Q: How do I register?
    Here: https://temu.bsc.es/cantemist/?p=3956

  3. Q: How to submit the results?
    We will provide further information in the following days.
    Download the example ZIP file.
    See Submission page for more info.

  4. Q: Can I use additional training data to improve model performance?
    Yes, participants may use any additional training data they have available, as long as they describe it in the working notes. We will ask to summarize such resources in your participant paper.

  5. Q: The task consists of three sub-tasks. Do I need to complete all sub-tasks? In other words, If I only complete a sub-task or two sub-tasks, is it allowed?
    Sub-tasks are independent and participants may participate in one, two or the three of them.

  6. Q: How can I submit my results? Can I submit several prediction files for each sub-task?
    You will have to create a ZIP file with your predictions file and submit it to EasyChair (further details will be soon released).
    Yes, you can submit up to 5 prediction files, all in the same ZIP.
    Download the example ZIP file.
    See Submission page for more info.

  7. Q: Should prediction files have headings?
    No, prediction files should have no headings.

  8. Q: Are all codes and mentions equally weighted?
    Yes. However, systems will be evaluated including and excluding 8000/6 mentions.

  9. Q: What version of the eCIE-O-3-1 is in use?
    We are using the 2018 version. The table you can download from the official Spanish webpage is not complete. CIE-O allows combining the digits 6th and 7th according to the pathological study and the differentiation degree. That is, not all the combinations of the 6th and 7th characters are shown in the table.
    There is a complete list of the valid codes on our webpage. Codes not present in this list will not be used for the evaluation.

  10. Q. What is meant by the /H appended to various codes?
    Some tumor mentions contain a relevant modifier not included in the terminology for this concept. Then, we append /H to the code.
    For example, in the file cc_onco158, we have the codes 8000/1 and 8000/1/H.
    8000/1 corresponds to a mention of neoplasm (“neoplasia”, in Spanish).
    In the 8000/1/H case, the mention is (in Spanish) “neoplasia de estirpe epitelial”. The modifier “estirpe epitelial” is present in the ICD-O terminology for many tumors. However, it is not present to modify specifically the code 8000/1. Then, we consider it a relevant modifier and add the /H.