TY - JOUR AU - Tsatsaronis, George AU - Balikas, Georgios AU - Malakasiotis, Prodromos AU - Partalas, Ioannis AU - Zschunke, Matthias AU - Alvers, Michael R. AU - Weissenborn, Dirk AU - Krithara, Anastasia AU - Petridis, Sergios AU - Polychronopoulos, Dimitris AU - Almirantis, Yannis AU - Pavlopoulos, John AU - Baskiotis, Nicolas AU - Gallinari, Patrick AU - ArtiƩres, Thierry AU - Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga AU - Heino, Norman AU - Gaussier, Eric AU - Barrio-Alvers, Liliana AU - Schroeder, Michael AU - Androutsopoulos, Ion AU - Paliouras, Georgios PY - 2015 DA - 2015/04/30 TI - An overview of the BIOASQ large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering competition JO - BMC Bioinformatics SP - 138 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - This article provides an overview of the first BioASQ challenge, a competition on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering (QA), which took place between March and September 2013. BioASQ assesses the ability of systems to semantically index very large numbers of biomedical scientific articles, and to return concise and user-understandable answers to given natural language questions by combining information from biomedical articles and ontologies. SN - 1471-2105 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-015-0564-6 DO - 10.1186/s12859-015-0564-6 ID - Tsatsaronis2015 ER -