Overview of BioASQ 2025: The Thirteenth BioASQ Challenge on Large-Scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing and Question Answering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20554v1
• Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 08:45:55 GMT
• Title: Overview of BioASQ 2025: The Thirteenth BioASQ Challenge on Large-Scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing and Question Answering
• Authors: Anastasios Nentidis, Georgios Katsimpras, Anastasia Krithara, Martin Krallinger, Miguel Rodríguez-Ortega, Eduard Rodriguez-López, Natalia Loukachevitch, Andrey Sakhovskiy, Elena Tutubalina, Dimitris Dimitriadis, Grigorios Tsoumakas, George Giannakoulas, Alexandra Bekiaridou, Athanasios Samaras, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Stefano Marchesin, Marco Martinelli, Gianmaria Silvello, Georgios Paliouras,
• Abstract summary: BioASQ is a series of challenges promoting advances in large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering.<n>This year, BioASQ consisted of new editions of the two established tasks, b and Synergy, and four new tasks.<n>In this edition of BioASQ, 83 competing teams participated with more than 1000 distinct submissions in total.
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• Abstract: This is an overview of the thirteenth edition of the BioASQ challenge in the context of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2025. BioASQ is a series of international challenges promoting advances in large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering. This year, BioASQ consisted of new editions of the two established tasks, b and Synergy, and four new tasks: a) Task MultiClinSum on multilingual clinical summarization. b) Task BioNNE-L on nested named entity linking in Russian and English. c) Task ELCardioCC on clinical coding in cardiology. d) Task GutBrainIE on gut-brain interplay information extraction. In this edition of BioASQ, 83 competing teams participated with more than 1000 distinct submissions in total for the six different shared tasks of the challenge. Similar to previous editions, several participating systems achieved competitive performance, indicating the continuous advancement of the state-of-the-art in the field.

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