GutBrainIE CLEF 2025: a challenge for Natural Language Processing research!

by | Jan 22, 2025 | Events

The HEREDITARY project is taking part in the GutBrainIE CLEF 2025 challenge, as part of the BioASQ Workshop (Task #6) that will be held as a Lab in CLEF 2025, on September 9-12, 2025, in Madrid, Spain. This initiative offers a unique opportunity for researchers and developers to contribute to the advancing field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and biomedical research.

This year’s challenge focuses on extracting structured information (concepts, relationships, and term variants) from biomedical texts related to the gut microbiota, and its critical connections with Parkinson’s disease and mental health. As new insights into the gut-brain axis continue to emerge, this challenge is a vital initiative for the scientific community to explore further the complex interplay between gut health and neurological disorders.

The GutBrainIE task is divided into two main subtasks. In the first one, participants are asked to identify and classify specific text spans into predefined categories. In contrast, in the second one, they must determine if a particular relationship defined between two categories holds or not. The submitted runs are evaluated based on Precision, Recall, and F1 measures for each subtask using gold annotations created by domain experts.

Important Dates

  • Registration Deadline: April 25, 2025
  • Test Data Release: April 28, 2025
  • Runs Submission Deadline: May 10, 2025
  • Evaluation Results: May 19, 2025
  • Workshop Dates: September 9-12, 2025, in Madrid, Spain

Don’t miss out on the chance to be part of this groundbreaking event! Register before April 25, 2025, and make your mark on the future of biomedical research.