Results of the seventh edition of the BioASQ Challenge
This is an incremental update to a domain-specific challenge for researchers in biomedical informatics.
The paper presents results from the seventh BioASQ Challenge, where 30 teams with over 100 systems participated, and the best systems outperformed strong baselines, indicating continuous improvement in state-of-the-art biomedical semantic indexing and question answering.
The results of the seventh edition of the BioASQ challenge are presented in this paper. The aim of the BioASQ challenge is the promotion of systems and methodologies through the organization of a challenge on the tasks of large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering. In total, 30 teams with more than 100 systems participated in the challenge this year. As in previous years, the best systems were able to outperform the strong baselines. This suggests that state-of-the-art systems are continuously improving, pushing the frontier of research.