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THE TRANSINSIGHT BIOASQ AWARD FOR SEMANTIC INTELLIGENCE 2014 GOES TO THE
NCBI TEAM
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/Going beyond IBM's Watson: Computer-based question answering gets into
the next round. An almost double number of participants in the BioASQ
competition over last year shows the importance of the topic.
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Sheffield, 16 of September 2014. //BioASQ, a project aiming to get
closer to the vision of machines that can answer our questions aims to
bring together the best of the best in automated semantic indexing and
question answering in the biomedical domain. It started in October 2012
and it is funded by the European Commission as a support action.
BioASQ's major goal is to foster the development and application of
computer-based semantic intelligence technologies to help researchers
and medical doctors get answers to medical questions faster and more
precisely. /
To find the best in the field, BioASQ runs a challenge where
participants compete against each other. The second round of the
competition started 3rd of February 2014 and contained two different
tasks: (Task A) Large-scale online biomedical semantic indexing, and
(Task B) biomedical semantic QA. In total 216 users and 142 systems
registered to the automated evaluation system in order to participate in
the challenge; 28 teams (with 95 systems) finally submitted their
suggested solutions and answers. This is an increase of almost 100% over
2013. The final results were presented at the BioASQ workshop in the
Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF), which took place between
September 23 and 26 in Sheffield, U.K.. The results are available at the
BioASQ Web site http://www.bioasq.org/participate/second-challenge-winners
The Award for Semantic Intelligence, sponsored by Transinsight, was
handed over to the participants who took part in all tasks and achieved
the best overall results. This year's winners are Yuqing Mao, Chih-Hsuan
Wei, Zhiyong Lu from NIH / NLM / NCBI. "We are very pleased to hand over
the second Award for Semantic Intelligence to this team since they
pushed the limits in the area of Semantic Indexing and Question
Answering again to a new level. Demonstrating the overall best
performance shows an outstanding ability in natural language processing.
Our warmest congratulations!" said Dr. Michael R. Alvers, CEO of
Transinsight.
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ABOUT BIOASQ
BioASQ aims to push for a solution to the information access problem of
biomedical experts through challenges on biomedical semantic indexing
and question answering. FP7/2007-2013, grant agreement n° 318652.
Internet: www.BioASQ.org
ABOUT TRANSINSIGHT
Transinsight develops knowledge-based solutions. Their semantic software
platform Enterprise Semantic Intelligence® powers the knowledge-based
search systems www.Go3R.org and www.GoPubMed.com, semantic search
engines for the next generation. In acknowledgement of the technologies
developed by the company, Transinsight has repeatedly been honored with
international awards amongst others the reddot design award -
communication design - best of the best 2009, the German Industry Prize
2010, the German Innovation Prize IT 2011 and the Detecon ICT Award
2012. The firm works in close collaboration with the Dresden University
of Technology. Selected customers are: Unilever, BASF, BfR, Statoil,
RWE, Abcam und EMBL. Internet: www.transinsight.com
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