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 University of Manchester

Task 1

Strict Matching

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     Event Class          gold (match)   answer (match)   recall    prec.   fscore
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     Localization          174 (   77)      147 (   77)    44.25    52.38    47.98
        Binding            347 (   39)      109 (   39)    11.24    35.78    17.11
    Gene_expression        722 (  372)      548 (  372)    51.52    67.88    58.58
     Transcription         137 (   20)       31 (   20)    14.60    64.52    23.81
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    6)       12 (    6)    42.86    50.00    46.15
    Phosphorylation        135 (  103)      197 (  103)    76.30    52.28    62.05
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1529 (  617)     1044 (  617)    40.35    59.10    47.96
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      Regulation           291 (    9)       47 (    9)     3.09    19.15     5.33
  Positive_regulation      983 (   10)      124 (   10)     1.02     8.06     1.81
  Negative_regulation      379 (   45)      229 (   45)    11.87    19.65    14.80
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1653 (   64)      400 (   64)     3.87    16.00     6.23
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3182 (  681)     1444 (  681)    21.40    47.16    29.44
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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 (   78)      147 (   78)    44.83    53.06    48.60
        Binding            347 (   44)      109 (   44)    12.68    40.37    19.30
    Gene_expression        722 (  380)      548 (  380)    52.63    69.34    59.84
     Transcription         137 (   21)       31 (   21)    15.33    67.74    25.00
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    6)       12 (    6)    42.86    50.00    46.15
    Phosphorylation        135 (  106)      197 (  106)    78.52    53.81    63.86
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1529 (  635)     1044 (  635)    41.53    60.82    49.36
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      Regulation           291 (    9)       47 (    9)     3.09    19.15     5.33
  Positive_regulation      983 (   11)      124 (   11)     1.12     8.87     1.99
  Negative_regulation      379 (   47)      229 (   47)    12.40    20.52    15.46
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1653 (   67)      400 (   67)     4.05    16.75     6.53
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3182 (  702)     1444 (  702)    22.06    48.61    30.35
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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 (   78)      147 (   78)    44.83    53.06    48.60
        Binding            347 (   44)      109 (   44)    12.68    40.37    19.30
    Gene_expression        722 (  380)      548 (  380)    52.63    69.34    59.84
     Transcription         137 (   21)       31 (   21)    15.33    67.74    25.00
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    6)       12 (    6)    42.86    50.00    46.15
    Phosphorylation        135 (  106)      197 (  106)    78.52    53.81    63.86
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1529 (  635)     1044 (  635)    41.53    60.82    49.36
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      Regulation           291 (    9)       47 (    9)     3.09    19.15     5.33
  Positive_regulation      983 (   11)      124 (   11)     1.12     8.87     1.99
  Negative_regulation      379 (   47)      229 (   47)    12.40    20.52    15.46
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1653 (   67)      400 (   67)     4.05    16.75     6.53
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3182 (  702)     1444 (  702)    22.06    48.61    30.35
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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 (   77)      147 (   77)    44.25    52.38    47.98
        Binding            398 (   70)      109 (   70)    17.59    64.22    27.61
    Gene_expression        722 (  372)      548 (  372)    51.52    67.88    58.58
     Transcription         137 (   20)       31 (   20)    14.60    64.52    23.81
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    6)       12 (    6)    42.86    50.00    46.15
    Phosphorylation        135 (  103)      197 (  103)    76.30    52.28    62.05
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1580 (  648)     1044 (  648)    41.01    62.07    49.39
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      Regulation           338 (   15)       47 (   15)     4.44    31.91     7.79
  Positive_regulation     1186 (   14)      124 (   14)     1.18    11.29     2.14
  Negative_regulation      416 (   51)      229 (   51)    12.26    22.27    15.81
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1940 (   80)      400 (   80)     4.12    20.00     6.84
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3520 (  728)     1444 (  728)    20.68    50.42    29.33
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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 (   78)      147 (   78)    44.83    53.06    48.60
        Binding            398 (   80)      109 (   80)    20.10    73.39    31.56
    Gene_expression        722 (  380)      548 (  380)    52.63    69.34    59.84
     Transcription         137 (   21)       31 (   21)    15.33    67.74    25.00
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    6)       12 (    6)    42.86    50.00    46.15
    Phosphorylation        135 (  106)      197 (  106)    78.52    53.81    63.86
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1580 (  671)     1044 (  671)    42.47    64.27    51.14
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      Regulation           338 (   16)       47 (   16)     4.73    34.04     8.31
  Positive_regulation     1186 (   15)      124 (   15)     1.26    12.10     2.29
  Negative_regulation      416 (   53)      229 (   53)    12.74    23.14    16.43
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1940 (   84)      400 (   84)     4.33    21.00     7.18
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3520 (  755)     1444 (  755)    21.45    52.29    30.42
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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