Judith Rosell


2026

The aim of the Social Media Mining for Health Applications and Health Real-World Data (#SMM4H-HeaRD) shared tasks is to fos- ter the development and evaluation of natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence methods for analyzing health-related text from social media and other real-world data sources. For the 11th iteration, held online and co-located with ACL 2026, the workshop continued the expanded #SMM4H- HeaRD platform initiated in 2025, broaden-ing its scope beyond social media to include additional health real-world data sources such as clinical narratives and biomedical literature. The 8 shared tasks covered diverse data sources, health domains (e.g., adverse drug events, insomnia, influenza vaccine effectiveness, cancer staging, substance use), and task formulations (e.g., classification, named entity recognition, span extraction, and text generation). In total, 110 teams registered, representing 31 countries. In this paper, we present an overview of the datasets, participant systems, and performance results, providing insights into current methods for mining social media and health real-world data for biomedical and clinical applications.
We present an overview of the MultiClinAI shared task, which focuses on multilingual clinical entity extraction and automatic corpus generation through annotation projection. It addresses two key challenges in clinical natural language processing (NLP): (i) developing comparable multilingual named entity recognition (NER) systems and (ii) automatically constructing multilingual clinical corpora through annotation projection. The MultiClinAI task provides a unified benchmark for evaluating multilingual and cross-lingual clinical NLP approaches that cover diseases, symptoms, and procedures in Spanish, English, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Swedish, and Czech. A total of 21 teams from 13 countries participated, submitting 531 runs across the different subtasks. The top runs obtained very competitive results, close to human expert annotation quality. The results highlight both the challenges and opportunities of multilingual clinical information extraction. All resources, including a corpus of over 738,201 manually revised entity mentions across seven languages, are publicly available on Zenodo at: https://zenodo.org/records/19334278.