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SemEval-2015 Task 6: Clinical TempEval

Steven Bethard,Leon Derczynski,2 Authors,M. Verhagen

2015 · DOI: 10.18653/v1/S15-2136
International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation · 163 Citations

TLDR

Clinical TempEval 2015 brought the temporal information extraction tasks of past TempEeval campaigns to the clinical domain, with the best systems achieving near-human performance on identifying events and times, but with a large performance gap still remaining for temporal relations.

Abstract

Clinical TempEval 2015 brought the temporal information extraction tasks of past TempEval campaigns to the clinical domain. Nine sub-tasks were included, covering problems in time expression identification, event expression identification and temporal relation identification. Participant systems were trained and evaluated on a corpus of clinical notes and pathology reports from the Mayo Clinic, annotated with an extension of TimeML for the clinical domain. Three teams submitted a total of 13 system runs, with the best systems achieving near-human performance on identifying events and times, but with a large performance gap still remaining for temporal relations.