# Overview of BioASQ 2024: The twelfth BioASQ challenge on Large-Scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing and Question Answering Source: [Overview of BioASQ 2024: The twelfth BioASQ challenge on Large-Scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing and Question Answering]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2025-10-27T07:01:39.544Z Authors: Anastasios Nentidis, Georgios Katsimpras, Anastasia Krithara, Salvador Lima-L\\'opez, Eul\\\`alia Farr\\'e-Maduell, Martin Krallinger, Natalia Loukachevitch, Vera Davydova, Elena Tutubalina, Georgios Paliouras Published: 2025-08-28T08:17:57.000Z ## Abstract This is an overview of the twelfth edition of the BioASQ challenge in the context of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2024. BioASQ is a series of international challenges promoting advances in large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering. This year, BioASQ consisted of new editions of the two established tasks b and Synergy, and two new tasks: a) MultiCardioNER on the adaptation of clinical entity detection to the cardiology domain in a multilingual setting, and b) BIONNE on nested NER in Russian and English. In this edition of BioASQ, 37 competing teams participated with more than 700 distinct submissions in total for the four different shared tasks of the challenge. Similarly to previous editions, most of the participating systems achieved competitive performance, suggesting the continuous advancement of the state-of-the-art in the field. ## Recorded benchmark results A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage. ## Original sources and implementation [Original paper]() [PDF]()