Following the impact and success of previous BioCreative-related initiatives, text mining and language 
processing researchers world-wide are invited to used the BeCalm (Biomedical Annotation Metaserver) platform
 in order to implement text Annotation Servers and to provide their results for the following tasks:
   
 TIPS (Technical interoperability and performance of annotation servers). 
(Technical interoperability of named entity recognition). This task will focus on the technical aspects of the evaluation 
of continuous text Annotation Servers (ASs) for named entity recognition. This is an open task, in the sense that it is 
not restricted to a particular named entity recognition task. Moreover, the Annotation Servers may be fully developed 
in-house or integrate third party recognition software as building block components. AS will consist of a 
"REST" (Representational State Transfer) API application that responds to the request by returning NER annotation 
results as structured data (represented in particular formats XML/BioC, JSON and TXT, see http://becalm.eu/api ).
    
CEMP (Chemical Entity Mention recognition). This tasks requires the recognition of 
chemical named entity mentions in text. This implies to return the start and end indices corresponding to all the chemical 
entity mentions.
    
GPRO (Gene and Protein Related Object recognition). For this task teams have to 
recognize mentions of gene and protein related objects (named as GPROs) in running text.

Participating teams do not need to send results for all of three sub-tasks. They can send results only 
for individual sub-tasks.

In line with previous BioCreative challenges, the result of participating teams are presented at the 
BioCreative V.5. evaluation workshop that will take place in Madrid (Spain) in April 2017.

See details of call for participation here here

Task Organizers:

Martin Krallinger, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre
Anália Lourenço, University of Vigo
Martin Pérez-Pérez, University of Vigo
Gael Pérez-Rodríguez, University of Vigo
Florentino Fdez-Riverola, University of Vigo
Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre