GENIA Tagger

- part-of-speech tagging, shallow parsing, and named entity recognition for biomedical text -

What's New

20 Oct. 2006: A demo page is available.

6 Oct. 2006: Version 3.0: The tagger now performs named entity recognition.

Overview

The GENIA tagger analyzes English sentences and outputs the base forms, part-of-speech tags, chunk tags, and named entity tags. The tagger is specifically tuned for biomedical text such as MEDLINE abstracts. If you need to extract information from biomedical documents, this tagger might be a useful preprocessing tool.

How to use the tagger

You need gcc to build the tagger.

1. Download the latest version of the tagger

Feburary 9 2016 geniatagger-3.0.2.tar.gz (source package for Unix)

2. Expand the archive


> tar xvzf geniatagger.tar.gz

3. Make


> cd geniatagger/ 

> make

4. Tag sentences

Prepare a text file containing one sentence per line, then


> ./geniatagger < RAWTEXT > TAGGEDTEXT

The tagger outputs the base forms, part-of-speech (POS) tags, chunk tags, and named entity (NE) tags in the following tab-separated format.


word1   base1   POStag1 chunktag1 NEtag1
word2   base2   POStag2 chunktag2 NEtag2
  :       :        :       :        :

Chunks are represented in the IOB2 format (B for BEGIN, I for INSIDE, and O for OUTSIDE).

Example


> echo "Inhibition of NF-kappaB activation reversed the anti-apoptotic effect of isochamaejasmin." | ./geniatagger

Inhibition      Inhibition      NN      B-NP     O
of              of              IN      B-PP     O
NF-kappaB       NF-kappaB       NN      B-NP     B-protein
activation      activation      NN      I-NP     O
reversed        reverse         VBD     B-VP     O
the             the             DT      B-NP     O
anti-apoptotic  anti-apoptotic  JJ      I-NP     O
effect          effect          NN      I-NP     O
of              of              IN      B-PP     O
isochamaejasmin isochamaejasmin NN      B-NP     O
.               .               .       O        O

You can easily extract four noun phrases ("Inhibition", "NF-kappaB activation", "the anti-apoptotic effect", and "isochamaejasmin") from this output by looking at the chunk tags. You can also find a protein name with the named entity tags.

Part-of-Speech Tagging Performance

General-purpose part-of-speech taggers do not usually perform well on biomedical text because lexical characteristics of biomedical documents are considerably different from those of newspaper articles, which are often used as the training data for a general-purpose tagger. The GENIA tagger is trained not only on the Wall Street Journal corpus but also on the GENIA corpus and the PennBioIE corpus [1], so the tagger works well on various types of biomedical documents. The table below shows the tagging accuracies of a tagger trained with different sets of documents. For details of the performance, see [2] (the latest version uses a different tagging algorithm [3] and gives slightly better performance than reported in the paper).

	Wall Street Journal	GENIA corpus
A tagger trained on the WSJ corpus	97.05%	85.19%
A tagger trained on the GENIA corpus	78.57%	98.49%
GENIA tagger	96.94%	98.26%

Chunking Performance

(to be evaluated)

Named Entity Recognition Performance

The named entity tagger is trained on the NLPBA data set. The featuers and parameters were tuned using the training data. The final performance on the evaluation set is as follows.

Entity Type	Recall	Precision	F-score
Protein	81.41	65.82	72.79
DNA	66.76	65.64	66.20
RNA	68.64	60.45	64.29
Cell Line	59.60	56.12	57.81
Cell Type	70.54	78.51	74.31
Overall	75.78	67.45	71.37

References

[1] S. Kulick, A. Bies, M. Liberman, M. Mandel, R. McDonald, M. Palmer, A. Schein and L. Ungar. Integrated Annotation for Biomedical Information Extraction, HLT/NAACL 2004 Workshop: Biolink 2004, pp. 61-68.
[2] Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Yuka Tateishi, Jin-Dong Kim, Tomoko Ohta, John McNaught, Sophia Ananiadou, and Jun'ichi Tsujii, Developing a Robust Part-of-Speech Tagger for Biomedical Text, Advances in Informatics - 10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, LNCS 3746, pp. 382-392, 2005 (pdf)
[3] Yoshimasa Tsuruoka and Jun'ichi Tsujii, Bidirectional Inference with the Easiest-First Strategy for Tagging Sequence Data, Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP 2005, pp. 467-474. (pdf)

This pages is maintained by Yoshimasa Tsuruoka. Questions and suggestions are welcome.

Department of Information Science, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan.