Abstract
Large Language Models (LLMs) are at the forefront of NLP achievements but fall short in dealing with shortcut learning, factual inconsistency, and vulnerability to adversarial inputs. These shortcomings are especially critical in medical contexts, where they can misrepresent actual model capabilities. Addressing this, we present SemEval-2024 Task 2: Safe Biomedical Natural Language Inference for Clinical Trials. Our contributions include the refined NLI4CT-P dataset (i.e. Natural Language Inference for Clinical Trials - Perturbed), designed to challenge LLMs with interventional and causal reasoning tasks, along with a comprehensive evaluation of methods and results for participant submissions. A total of 106 participants registered for the task contributing to over 1200 individual submissions and 25 system overview papers. This initiative aims to advance the robustness and applicability of NLI models in healthcare, ensuring safer and more dependable AI assistance in clinical decision-making. We anticipate that the dataset, models, and outcomes of this task can support future research in the field of biomedical NLI. The dataset, competition leaderboard, and website are publicly available.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.semeval-1.271
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024)
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Editors:
- Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Giovanni Da San Martino, Sara Rosenthal, Aiala Rosá
- Venue:
- SemEval
- SIG:
- SIGLEX
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1947–1962
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.semeval-1.271
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2024.semeval-1.271
- Cite (ACL):
- Mael Jullien, Marco Valentino, and André Freitas. 2024. SemEval-2024 Task 2: Safe Biomedical Natural Language Inference for Clinical Trials. In Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024), pages 1947–1962, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- SemEval-2024 Task 2: Safe Biomedical Natural Language Inference for Clinical Trials (Jullien et al., SemEval 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2024.semeval-1.271.pdf