ShAReCLEF eHealth 2013: Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval for Clinical Care

This is the pilot year of the ShARe/CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab, a shared task focused on natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR) for clinical care. The task is co-organized by the Shared Annotated Resources (ShARe) project and the CLEF Initiative (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, formerly known as Cross-Language Evaluation Forum). The vision of ShARe/CLEF is two-fold: (1) to develop tasks that potentially impact patient understanding of medical information and (2) to provide the community with an increasingly sophisticated dataset of clinical narrative to advance the state-of-the-art in Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction and Information Retrieval in healthcare. 

The ShARe/CLEF eHealth 2013 Challenge has three tasks: Task 1 and Task 2 involve annotation of entities in a set of narrative clinical reports; Task 3 involves retrieval of web pages based on queries generated when reading the clinical reports. The datasets for Tasks 1 and 2 comprise de-identified clinical free-text notes from the MIMIC-II database (version 2.5). The dataset for Task 3 consists of a set of medical-related documents provided by the Khresmoi E.U. Consortium. This project provides data files for Task 1 and Task 2 only. 

本年度为ShARe/CLEF eHealth评估实验室的试点年份，该实验室致力于聚焦于临床护理领域的自然语言处理（NLP）和信息检索（IR）的共享任务。该任务由共享标注资源项目（Shared Annotated Resources，简称ShARe）与CLEF倡议（Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum，原名跨语言评估论坛）共同组织。ShARe/CLEF的愿景具有双重性：（1）开发可能影响患者对医疗信息理解的任务；（2）为社区提供日益复杂的临床叙事数据集，以推动自然语言处理、信息提取和信息检索在医疗保健领域的先进技术发展。ShARe/CLEF eHealth 2013挑战赛包含三项任务：任务1和任务2涉及对一系列叙事临床报告中实体的标注；任务3涉及根据阅读临床报告时生成的查询检索网页。任务1和任务2的数据集由MIMIC-II数据库（版本2.5）中的去标识化临床自由文本笔记组成。任务3的数据集包括Khresmoi E.U.联盟提供的医学相关文档集。本项目仅提供任务1和任务2的数据文件。