BioNLP'09 Shared Task on
Event Extraction
in conjunction with BioNLP, a NAACL-HLT 2009 workshop, June 4-5 2009, Boulder, Colorado
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Final Evaluation Results
of Universidade de Aveiro

Task 1

Strict Matching

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     Event Class          gold (match)   answer (match)   recall    prec.   fscore
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     Localization          174 (   56)       89 (   56)    32.18    62.92    42.59
        Binding            347 (   38)      138 (   38)    10.95    27.54    15.67
    Gene_expression        722 (  300)      427 (  300)    41.55    70.26    52.22
     Transcription         137 (   21)      112 (   21)    15.33    18.75    16.87
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    5)        8 (    5)    35.71    62.50    45.45
    Phosphorylation        135 (   57)       84 (   57)    42.22    67.86    52.05
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1529 (  477)      858 (  477)    31.20    55.59    39.97
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      Regulation           291 (   20)      165 (   20)     6.87    12.12     8.77
  Positive_regulation      983 (   49)      218 (   49)     4.98    22.48     8.16
  Negative_regulation      379 (   22)      111 (   22)     5.80    19.82     8.98
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1653 (   91)      494 (   91)     5.51    18.42     8.48
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3182 (  568)     1352 (  568)    17.85    42.01    25.06
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Approximate Span Matching

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     Event Class          gold (match)   answer (match)   recall    prec.   fscore
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     Localization          174 (   62)       88 (   62)    35.63    70.45    47.33
        Binding            347 (   47)      138 (   47)    13.54    34.06    19.38
    Gene_expression        722 (  335)      427 (  335)    46.40    78.45    58.31
     Transcription         137 (   46)      112 (   46)    33.58    41.07    36.95
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    5)        8 (    5)    35.71    62.50    45.45
    Phosphorylation        135 (   67)       84 (   67)    49.63    79.76    61.19
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1529 (  562)      857 (  562)    36.76    65.58    47.11
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      Regulation           291 (   23)      165 (   23)     7.90    13.94    10.09
  Positive_regulation      983 (   56)      218 (   56)     5.70    25.69     9.33
  Negative_regulation      379 (   25)      111 (   25)     6.60    22.52    10.20
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1653 (  104)      494 (  104)     6.29    21.05     9.69
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3182 (  666)     1351 (  666)    20.93    49.30    29.38
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Approximate Span Matching/Approximate Recursive Matching

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     Event Class          gold (match)   answer (match)   recall    prec.   fscore
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     Localization          174 (   62)       88 (   62)    35.63    70.45    47.33
        Binding            347 (   47)      138 (   47)    13.54    34.06    19.38
    Gene_expression        722 (  335)      427 (  335)    46.40    78.45    58.31
     Transcription         137 (   46)      112 (   46)    33.58    41.07    36.95
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    5)        8 (    5)    35.71    62.50    45.45
    Phosphorylation        135 (   67)       84 (   67)    49.63    79.76    61.19
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1529 (  562)      857 (  562)    36.76    65.58    47.11
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      Regulation           291 (   23)      165 (   23)     7.90    13.94    10.09
  Positive_regulation      983 (   56)      218 (   56)     5.70    25.69     9.33
  Negative_regulation      379 (   25)      111 (   25)     6.60    22.52    10.20
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1653 (  104)      494 (  104)     6.29    21.05     9.69
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3182 (  666)     1351 (  666)    20.93    49.30    29.38
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Event Decomposition/Approximate Recursive Matching

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     Event Class          gold (match)   answer (match)   recall    prec.   fscore
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     Localization          174 (   56)       89 (   56)    32.18    62.92    42.59
        Binding            398 (   67)      149 (   67)    16.83    44.97    24.50
    Gene_expression        722 (  300)      427 (  300)    41.55    70.26    52.22
     Transcription         137 (   21)      112 (   21)    15.33    18.75    16.87
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    5)        8 (    5)    35.71    62.50    45.45
    Phosphorylation        135 (   57)       84 (   57)    42.22    67.86    52.05
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1580 (  506)      869 (  506)    32.03    58.23    41.32
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      Regulation           338 (   22)      165 (   22)     6.51    13.33     8.75
  Positive_regulation     1186 (   84)      218 (   84)     7.08    38.53    11.97
  Negative_regulation      416 (   22)      111 (   22)     5.29    19.82     8.35
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1940 (  128)      494 (  128)     6.60    25.91    10.52
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3520 (  634)     1363 (  634)    18.01    46.52    25.97
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Event Decomposition/Approximate Span Matching/Approximate Recursive Matching

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     Event Class          gold (match)   answer (match)   recall    prec.   fscore
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     Localization          174 (   62)       88 (   62)    35.63    70.45    47.33
        Binding            398 (   78)      149 (   78)    19.60    52.35    28.52
    Gene_expression        722 (  335)      427 (  335)    46.40    78.45    58.31
     Transcription         137 (   46)      112 (   46)    33.58    41.07    36.95
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    5)        8 (    5)    35.71    62.50    45.45
    Phosphorylation        135 (   67)       84 (   67)    49.63    79.76    61.19
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1580 (  593)      868 (  593)    37.53    68.32    48.45
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      Regulation           338 (   25)      165 (   25)     7.40    15.15     9.94
  Positive_regulation     1186 (   94)      218 (   94)     7.93    43.12    13.39
  Negative_regulation      416 (   27)      111 (   27)     6.49    24.32    10.25
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1940 (  146)      494 (  146)     7.53    29.55    12.00
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3520 (  739)     1362 (  739)    20.99    54.26    30.27
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Task 2

Strict Matching

N/A

Approximate Span Matching

N/A

Approximate Span Matching/Approximate Recursive Matching

N/A

Event Decomposition/Approximate Recursive Matching

N/A

Event Decomposition/Approximate Span Matching/Approximate Recursive Matching

N/A

Task 3

Strict Matching

N/A

Approximate Span Matching

N/A

Approximate Span Matching/Approximate Recursive Matching

N/A

Event Decomposition/Approximate Recursive Matching

N/A

Event Decomposition/Approximate Span Matching/Approximate Recursive Matching

N/A