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 Turku

Task 1

Strict Matching

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     Event Class          gold (match)   answer (match)   recall    prec.   fscore
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     Localization          174 (   85)      105 (   85)    48.85    80.95    60.93
        Binding            347 (  120)      279 (  120)    34.58    43.01    38.34
    Gene_expression        722 (  495)      642 (  495)    68.56    77.10    72.58
     Transcription         137 (   50)       78 (   50)    36.50    64.10    46.51
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    6)        9 (    6)    42.86    66.67    52.17
    Phosphorylation        135 (  103)      146 (  103)    76.30    70.55    73.31
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1529 (  859)     1259 (  859)    56.18    68.23    61.62
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      Regulation           291 (   67)      194 (   67)    23.02    34.54    27.63
  Positive_regulation      983 (  314)      783 (  314)    31.94    40.10    35.56
  Negative_regulation      379 (  117)      306 (  117)    30.87    38.24    34.16
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1653 (  498)     1283 (  498)    30.13    38.82    33.92
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3182 ( 1357)     2542 ( 1357)    42.65    53.38    47.41
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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 (   86)      105 (   86)    49.43    81.90    61.65
        Binding            347 (  139)      279 (  139)    40.06    49.82    44.41
    Gene_expression        722 (  504)      642 (  504)    69.81    78.50    73.90
     Transcription         137 (   54)       78 (   54)    39.42    69.23    50.23
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    6)        9 (    6)    42.86    66.67    52.17
    Phosphorylation        135 (  109)      146 (  109)    80.74    74.66    77.58
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1529 (  898)     1259 (  898)    58.73    71.33    64.42
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      Regulation           291 (   74)      194 (   74)    25.43    38.14    30.52
  Positive_regulation      983 (  378)      782 (  378)    38.45    48.34    42.83
  Negative_regulation      379 (  130)      306 (  130)    34.30    42.48    37.96
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1653 (  582)     1282 (  582)    35.21    45.40    39.66
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3182 ( 1480)     2541 ( 1480)    46.51    58.24    51.72
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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 (   86)      105 (   86)    49.43    81.90    61.65
        Binding            347 (  139)      279 (  139)    40.06    49.82    44.41
    Gene_expression        722 (  504)      642 (  504)    69.81    78.50    73.90
     Transcription         137 (   54)       78 (   54)    39.42    69.23    50.23
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    6)        9 (    6)    42.86    66.67    52.17
    Phosphorylation        135 (  109)      146 (  109)    80.74    74.66    77.58
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1529 (  898)     1259 (  898)    58.73    71.33    64.42
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      Regulation           291 (   74)      194 (   74)    25.43    38.14    30.52
  Positive_regulation      983 (  381)      782 (  381)    38.76    48.72    43.17
  Negative_regulation      379 (  134)      306 (  133)    35.36    43.46    38.99
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1653 (  589)     1282 (  588)    35.63    45.87    40.11
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3182 ( 1487)     2541 ( 1486)    46.73    58.48    51.95
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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 (   85)      105 (   85)    48.85    80.95    60.93
        Binding            398 (  186)      328 (  186)    46.73    56.71    51.24
    Gene_expression        722 (  495)      642 (  495)    68.56    77.10    72.58
     Transcription         137 (   50)       78 (   50)    36.50    64.10    46.51
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    6)        9 (    6)    42.86    66.67    52.17
    Phosphorylation        135 (  103)      146 (  103)    76.30    70.55    73.31
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1580 (  925)     1308 (  925)    58.54    70.72    64.06
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      Regulation           338 (   87)      215 (   87)    25.74    40.47    31.46
  Positive_regulation     1186 (  447)      884 (  447)    37.69    50.57    43.19
  Negative_regulation      416 (  138)      310 (  138)    33.17    44.52    38.02
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1940 (  672)     1409 (  672)    34.64    47.69    40.13
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3520 ( 1597)     2717 ( 1597)    45.37    58.78    51.21
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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 (   86)      105 (   86)    49.43    81.90    61.65
        Binding            398 (  212)      328 (  212)    53.27    64.63    58.40
    Gene_expression        722 (  504)      642 (  504)    69.81    78.50    73.90
     Transcription         137 (   54)       78 (   54)    39.42    69.23    50.23
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    6)        9 (    6)    42.86    66.67    52.17
    Phosphorylation        135 (  109)      146 (  109)    80.74    74.66    77.58
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1580 (  971)     1308 (  971)    61.46    74.24    67.24
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      Regulation           338 (   95)      215 (   95)    28.11    44.19    34.36
  Positive_regulation     1186 (  529)      883 (  529)    44.60    59.91    51.14
  Negative_regulation      416 (  160)      310 (  160)    38.46    51.61    44.08
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1940 (  784)     1408 (  784)    40.41    55.68    46.83
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3520 ( 1755)     2716 ( 1755)    49.86    64.62    56.29
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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