Overview of GenoVarDis at IberLEF 2024: NER of Genomic Variants and Related Diseases in Spanish
Resumen
We present the first shared task for Named Entity Recognition (NER) in Spanish written scientific literature about genomic variants, genes, and its associated diseases and symptoms, GenoVarDis at IberLEF 2024 campaign. The challenge consisted on identifying entities related to genomic variants. We annotated a corpus of 633 abstracts extracted from PubMed articles, with the information for the tasks. Seven teams took part in the evaluation phase, obtaining in general good results for the task.