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

Dirk Weissenborn; Anastasia Krithara; Sergios Petridis; Dimitris Polychronopoulos; Yannis Almirantis; John Pavlopoulos; Nicolas Baskiotis; Patrick Gallinari; Thierry Artières; Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo; Norman Heino; Éric Gaussier; Liliana Barrio-Alvers; Michael Schroeder; Ion Androutsopoulos; Γεώργιος Παλιούρας; George Tsatsaronis; Georgios Balikas; Prodromos Malakasiotis; Ioannis Partalas; Matthias Zschunke; Michael R. Alvers

doi:10.1186/s12859-015-0564-6

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Computer scienceInformation retrievalSearch engine indexingTask (project management)Benchmark (surveying)Question answeringParagraphControlled vocabularyIndex (typography)Natural language processingWorld Wide WebData science

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                                    Dirk Weissenborn, 
                                
                                    Anastasia Krithara, 
                                
                                    Sergios Petridis
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2015). 
                            An overview of the BIOASQ large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering competition. 
                            BMC Bioinformatics
                            , 16
                            (1)
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                            https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-015-0564-6
                        

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DOI: 10.1186/s12859-015-0564-6