Medical NLP Challenge

Call for Participation: 2011 Medical NLP Challenge

This year we are excited to coordinate two groups who have conducted shared tasks: I2B2 and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Together, these groups, along with the Veterans Administration, will hold one task this year with two tracks, an objective analysis and a subjective analysis. The rational is two-fold: to encourage collaboration between the two research communities and to create an annual calendar that optimizes our mission to create, disseminate, and teach new knowledge.

Track 2

This track focuses on topic classification. Participants will be asked to find emotions in suicide notes. The data come from a collection of over 1,000 notes from those who have died by suicide and are hand-annotated. This shared task is supported by NIH Shared Task 2010 - Analysis of Suicide Notes for Subjective Information Grant Number 1R13LM010743-01 and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Questions about the topic classification task can be addressed to information@computationalmedicine.org.

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You can download sample and other data as they become available here.

Track 1

This track focuses on co-reference resolution. The data for this track are provided by Partners HealthCare, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (MIMIC II Database), University of Pittsburgh and the Mayo Clinic. These data are fully de-identified and manually annotated for co-reference. Part of these data have been produced by the ODIE grant (R01 CA127979, NCI/NCBI, PI Crowley) and contributed to the i2b2/VA 2011 challenge under SHARP 4 (U01 SHARP 4, ONC, PI Chute). Questions about the i2b2/VA track can be addressed to i2b2nlp@albany.edu

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Sincerely,
Ozlem Uzuner
John Pestian
Brett South