\input zb-basic \input zb-ioport \iteman{io-port 06106079} \itemau{Janusz, Andrzej; Nguyen, Hung Son; \'Sl\c{e}zak, Dominik; Stawicki, Sebastian; Krasuski, Adam} \itemti{JRS'2012 data mining competition: topical classification of biomedical research papers.} \itemso{Yao, JingTao (ed.) et al., Rough sets and current trends in computing. 8th international conference, RSCTC 2012, Chengdu, China, August 17--20, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-32114-6/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7413. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 422-431 (2012).} \itemab Summary: We summarize the JRS'2012 Data Mining Competition on ``Topical Classification of Biomedical Research Papers'', held between January 2, 2012 and March 30, 2012 as an interactive on-line contest hosted on the TunedIT platform (\url{http://tunedit.org}). We present the scope and background of the challenge task, the evaluation procedure, the progress, and the results. We also present a scalable method for the contest data generation from biomedical research papers. \itemrv{~} \itemcc{} \itemut{Data Mining; Topical Classification; Multi-label Classification; Explicit Semantic Analysis; PubMed; MeSH} \itemli{doi:10.1007/978-3-642-32115-3\_50} \end