About NTCIR-10 “Medical Natural Language Processing (MedNLP)” Pilot Task
This NTCIR-10 pilot task calls participants to retrieve important information (personal and medical information) from clinical text written in Japanese.
Background
Recently, more and more medical records are written in electronic format in place of paper, which leads to a higher importance of information processing technique in medical fields. In this proposed pilot task, participants are supposed to retrieve important information from medical documents in Japanese. This is one of the elemental technologies to develop computational systems for supporting a wide range of medical services.
Our goal is to promote and support to generate practical tools and systems applicable in the medical industry, which will support medical decisions and treatments by physicians and medical staffs. While a short-term objective of this pilot task is to evaluate basic techniques to information extraction in medical fields, the actual objective is to offer a forum for achieving the goal with community-based approach, that is, to gather people who are interested in this issue, and to facilitate their communication and discussion to clarify issues to be solved and to define element technologies.
Tasks
Participants are supposed to extract information from medical reports written by physicians. We are planning to hold following three types of tasks:
De-identification task
Complaint and diagnosis task
Free task
Datasets
The dataset for this pilot task contains medical history summaries of imaginary patients written by physicians:
Example input data: plain text
Example output data: tagged text
Schedule
| Registration open | 2012-11-01 |
| Registration deadline | 2012-11-30 |
| Send sample data (for development) | 2012-12-10 |
| Send test data (for evaluation) | 2013-01-25 |
| Submission deadline | 2013-02-01 |
| Early draft overview papers by TOs released to participants | 2013-02-15 |
| Draft participants abstracts* due | 2013-03-01 |
| All camera ready abstracts* due | 2013-05-01 |
| NTCIR-10 Workshop Meeting, NII | 2013-06-18/21 |
(*Abstracts describing the methods tested in this pilot task. Non-peer reviewed.)
Registration
Please register via registration link to participate in this pilot task.
Registered participants are automatically subscribed to the NTCIR-MedNLP-particpants mailing list.
Expected participants
引用先
Please refer to the following paper:
Mizuki MORITA, Yoshinobu KANO, Tomoko OHKUMA, Mai MIYABE, Eiji ARAMAKI:
Overview of the NTCIR-10 MedNLP task,
In Proceedings of NTCIR-10, 2013. (2013/06/18, Tokyo, Japan）
Links
NTCIR-10 – http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-10/
EVIA 2013 (Satellite Workshop of NTCIR-10) – http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/evia2013/