Training and testing data are now available for the 2024 Plain Language 
Adaptation of Biomedical Abstracts<https://bionlp.nlm.nih.gov/plaba2024/> track 
at TREC<https://trec.nist.gov>.


The PLABA task is to rewrite biomedical abstracts, line by line, in plain 
language for the general public. This includes:

- Simplifying and splitting sentences

- Replacing or omitting jargon

- Providing further background where appropriate


This year, PLABA also has new subtask—expert term replacement. This includes:

- Identifying expert terms

- Classifying how they should be replaced (explained, substituted, generalized, 
exemplified, or omitted)

- Generating replacement text for the terms

As this subtask does not require generation of complete documents, we hope it 
will allow for participation with fewer compute resources.


By participating in PLABA, you will get:

- Access to a unique, manually annotated expert term replacement dataset

- Manual evaluations of system outputs by science communication experts


Further information

Task descriptions: https://bionlp.nlm.nih.gov/plaba2024/

Registration: https://ir.nist.gov/evalbase/

Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/g/plaba2024


Due dates

Aug 30 - Task 2 (abstract rewriting) submissions due

Sep 15 - Task 1 (term replacement) submissions due



We look forward to your submissions!
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