Overview of the NTCIR-11 MedNLP-2 Task
Eiji Aramaki, Mizuki Morita, Yoshinobu Kano, Tomoko Ohkuma · 2014
Electronic medical records are now often replacing paper documents, and thus the importance of information processing in medical fields has increased. We have already organized the NTCIR-10 MedNLP pilot task. It has been the very first shared task attempt to evaluate technologies to retrieve important information from medical reports written in Japanese, whereas the NTCIR-11 MedNLP-2 task has been designed for more advanced and practical use for the medical fields. This task was consisted of three sub tasks: (Task 1) the task to extract disease names and dates, (Task 2) the task to add ICD-10 code to disease names, (Task 3) free task. Ten groups (24 systems) participated in Task 1, 9 groups (19 systems) participated in Task 2, and 2 groups (2systems) participated in Task 3. This report is to present results of these groups with discussions that are to clarify the issues to be resolved in medical natural language processing fields.