Technical report submission

All shared task participants are:

• invited to submit a paper with the description of their systems to the CL4Health Workshop [deadline: March, 9th]

• requested to submit a short summary (around 100 words) of their best system. To be send to crf.filling@gmail.com [deadline: March, 6th]

SUBMISSION PORTAL

You can submit the technical report paper at this SOFTCONF link. Please make sure to select the correct shared task (CRF) in the “Submission Type” drop-down menu on the submission page.

PAPER FORMAT

Length: We recommend to present short papers (up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references).

Anonymity: non-anonymized

Title-format: <Team Name> at CRF filling 2026: <Paper Title>

The papers should follow LREC 2026 formatting (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/).

REFERENCES

We ask participants to ensure that their paper includes proper citations to both the shared task overview paper and the dataset paper.

Overview paper (tentative)

@inproceedings{ferrazzi-etal-2026-crf-filling,

  title = "Overview of the CRF 2026 Shared Task on Clinical Case Report Forms filling",

  author = "Ferrazzi, Pietro and Ghosh, Soumitra and Lavelli, Alberto and Magnini, Bernardo",

  booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health)",

  year = "2026",

  address = "Palma, Mallorca (Spain)",

  publisher = "ELRA",

}

Gold standard pairs

@misc{kaczmarek2026automaticfillingcasereport,

      title={Toward Automatic Filling of Case Report Forms: A Case Study on Data from an Italian Emergency Department}, 

      author={Gabriela Anna Kaczmarek and Pietro Ferrazzi and Lorenzo Porta and Vicky Rubini and Bernardo Magnini},

      year={2026},

      eprint={2602.23062},

      archivePrefix={arXiv},

      primaryClass={cs.CL},

      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23062}, 

}

Synthetic Dataset

@inproceedings{ferrazzi-etal-2025-converting,

    title = "Converting Annotated Clinical Cases into Structured Case Report Forms",

    author = "Ferrazzi, Pietro  and Lavelli, Alberto and Magnini, Bernardo",

    editor = "Demner-Fushman, Dina and Ananiadou, Sophia and Miwa, Makoto and Tsujii, Junichi",

    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing",

    month = aug,

    year = "2025",

    address = "Viena, Austria",

    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",

    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-1.26/",

    doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.bionlp-1.26",

    pages = "307--318",

    ISBN = "979-8-89176-275-6",

}

Unannotated Dataset

The set of 2667 unannotated clinical notes is a subset of what presented in

@misc{ferrazzi2026smallllmsmedicalnlp,

      title={Small LLMs for Medical NLP: a Systematic Analysis of Few-Shot, Constraint Decoding, Fine-Tuning and Continual Pre-Training in Italian}, 

      author={Pietro Ferrazzi and Mattia Franzin and Alberto Lavelli and Bernardo Magnini},

      year={2026},

      eprint={2602.17475},

      archivePrefix={arXiv},

      primaryClass={cs.CL},

      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17475}, 

}