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Hanna Suominen and Lorraine Goeuriot and Liadh Kelly and Laura Alonso Alemany and Elias Bassani and Nicola Brew-Sam and Viviana Cotik and Darío Filippo and Gabriela González-Sáez and Franco Luque and Philippe Mulhem and Gabriella Pasi and Roland Roller and Sandaru Seneviratne and Rishabh Upadhyay and Jorge Vivaldi and Marco Viviani and Chenchen Xu

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Abstract

In this paper, we provide an overview of the ninth annual edition of the CLEF eHealth evaluation lab. CLEF eHealth 2021 continues our evaluation resource building efforts around the easing and support of patients, their next-of-kins, health care professionals, and health scientists in understanding, accessing, and authoring electronic health information in a multilingual setting. The 2021 lab offered two tasks: Task 1 on multilingual Information Extraction (IE), this year extending to a corpus of Spanish radiology reports; and Task 2 on Consumer Health Search (CHS) that builds on the previous year’s Information Retrieval (IR) tasks. In total, 11 teams took part in these tasks (7 in Task 1 on IE and 4 in Task 2 on IR). Herein, we describe the resources created for these tasks and the evaluation methodology adopted, and we provide a brief summary of the participants of this year’s challenges as well as the results …