The 8th Workshop on Clinical Natural Language Processing

At LREC 2026. Palma, Mallorca (Spain). Sat 16 May 2026.

Important Dates

All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (anywhere on Earth).

Event Date
Submission deadline: shared task participant papers Fri 13 Feb 2026
Submission deadline: shared task organizer papers Mon 16 Feb 2026
Submission deadline: main workshop papers Mon 16 Feb 2026
Notification of acceptance Wed 11 Mar 2026
Final versions of papers due Mon 30 Mar 2026
Workshop Sat 16 May 2026

Shared Tasks

  • MEDIQA-EVAL: Evaluating Metrics for Multimodal Question Answering: In this multimodal evaluation task, participants assign quality scores to model-generated answers for patient questions that are paired with one or multiple clinical images. The dataset includes both English and Chinese questions and answers, along with structured metadata such as anatomical location and wound type. Each system answer is independently rated by clinical experts along three dimensions: overall quality, factual accuracy, and completeness.

  • MEDIQA-SYNUR: Extracting Clinical Observations from Nurse Dictations: This shared task focuses on extracting and normalizing clinical observations from conversational transcripts and mapping them to a large ontology of clinical concepts. Participants will be evaluated on a curated and validated benchmark of nurse dictations generated through a controlled multi-agent simulation pipeline. Gold-standard annotations were produced by expert nurses using an open-source, large-scale clinical ontology.