Overview of the ClinIQLink 2025 Shared Task on Medical Question-Answering

Brandon Colelough, Davis Bartels, Dina Demner-Fushman


Abstract
In this paper, we present an overview of CLINIQLINK a shared task, collocated with the 24th BioNLP workshop at ACL 2025, designed to stress-test large language models (LLMs) on medically-oriented question answering aimed at the level of a General Practitioner. The challenge supplies 4 978 expert-verified, medical source-grounded question–answer pairs that cover seven formats - true/false, multiple choice, unordered list, short answer, short-inverse, multi-hop, and multi-hop-inverse. Participating systems, bundled in Docker or Apptainer images, are executed on the CodaBench platform or the University of Maryland’s Zaratan cluster. An automated harness (Task 1) scores closed-ended items by exact match and open-ended items with a three-tier embedding metric. A subsequent physician panel (Task 2) audits the top model responses.
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2025.bionlp-1.32
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ACL 2025
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August
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2025
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Viena, Austria
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Dina Demner-Fushman, Sophia Ananiadou, Makoto Miwa, Junichi Tsujii
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BioNLP | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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378–387
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Brandon Colelough, Davis Bartels, and Dina Demner-Fushman. 2025. Overview of the ClinIQLink 2025 Shared Task on Medical Question-Answering. In ACL 2025, pages 378–387, Viena, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Overview of the ClinIQLink 2025 Shared Task on Medical Question-Answering (Colelough et al., BioNLP 2025)
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