BioASQ at CLEF2025: The Thirteenth Edition of the Large-Scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing and Question Answering Challenge

Anastasios Nentidis, Georgios Katsimpras, Anastasia Krithara, Martin Krallinger, Miguel Rodríguez-Ortega, Natalia V. Loukachevitch, Andrey Sakhovskiy, Elena Tutubalina, Grigorios Tsoumakas, George Giannakoulas, Alexandra Bekiaridou, Athanasios Samaras, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Stefano Marchesin, Laura Menotti, Gianmaria Silvello, Georgios Paliouras

Abstract: During the last twelve years, the large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question-answering challenge (BioASQ) has been pushing towards the continuous advancement of methods and tools to accelerate access to the ever-increasing scientific resources of the biomedical domain. In this direction, each year, BioASQ organizes shared tasks representing the real information needs of biomedical experts and provides respective benchmark datasets. This way, it provides a unique common testbed where research teams around the world can test and compare new approaches for accessing biomedical knowledge.