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 Zurich

Task 1

Strict Matching

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     Event Class          gold (match)   answer (match)   recall    prec.   fscore
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     Localization          174 (   31)       34 (   31)    17.82    91.18    29.81
        Binding            347 (  102)      287 (  102)    29.39    35.54    32.18
    Gene_expression        722 (  370)      515 (  370)    51.25    71.84    59.82
     Transcription         137 (   28)      148 (   28)    20.44    18.92    19.65
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    8)       16 (    8)    57.14    50.00    53.33
    Phosphorylation        135 (   78)       84 (   78)    57.78    92.86    71.23
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1529 (  617)     1084 (  617)    40.35    56.92    47.23
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      Regulation           291 (   29)      120 (   29)     9.97    24.17    14.11
  Positive_regulation      983 (  138)      533 (  138)    14.04    25.89    18.21
  Negative_regulation      379 (   55)      158 (   55)    14.51    34.81    20.48
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1653 (  222)      811 (  222)    13.43    27.37    18.02
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3182 (  839)     1895 (  839)    26.37    44.27    33.05
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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 (   32)       34 (   32)    18.39    94.12    30.77
        Binding            347 (  107)      287 (  107)    30.84    37.28    33.75
    Gene_expression        722 (  379)      515 (  379)    52.49    73.59    61.28
     Transcription         137 (   31)      148 (   31)    22.63    20.95    21.75
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    8)       16 (    8)    57.14    50.00    53.33
    Phosphorylation        135 (   81)       84 (   81)    60.00    96.43    73.97
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1529 (  638)     1084 (  638)    41.73    58.86    48.83
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      Regulation           291 (   34)      120 (   34)    11.68    28.33    16.55
  Positive_regulation      983 (  148)      533 (  148)    15.06    27.77    19.53
  Negative_regulation      379 (   56)      158 (   56)    14.78    35.44    20.86
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1653 (  238)      811 (  238)    14.40    29.35    19.32
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3182 (  876)     1895 (  876)    27.53    46.23    34.51
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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 (   32)       34 (   32)    18.39    94.12    30.77
        Binding            347 (  107)      287 (  107)    30.84    37.28    33.75
    Gene_expression        722 (  379)      515 (  379)    52.49    73.59    61.28
     Transcription         137 (   31)      148 (   31)    22.63    20.95    21.75
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    8)       16 (    8)    57.14    50.00    53.33
    Phosphorylation        135 (   81)       84 (   81)    60.00    96.43    73.97
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1529 (  638)     1084 (  638)    41.73    58.86    48.83
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      Regulation           291 (   34)      120 (   34)    11.68    28.33    16.55
  Positive_regulation      983 (  152)      533 (  152)    15.46    28.52    20.05
  Negative_regulation      379 (   59)      158 (   59)    15.57    37.34    21.97
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1653 (  245)      811 (  245)    14.82    30.21    19.89
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3182 (  883)     1895 (  883)    27.75    46.60    34.78
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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 (   31)       34 (   31)    17.82    91.18    29.81
        Binding            398 (  140)      250 (  140)    35.18    56.00    43.21
    Gene_expression        722 (  370)      515 (  370)    51.25    71.84    59.82
     Transcription         137 (   28)      148 (   28)    20.44    18.92    19.65
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    8)       16 (    8)    57.14    50.00    53.33
    Phosphorylation        135 (   78)       84 (   78)    57.78    92.86    71.23
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1580 (  655)     1047 (  655)    41.46    62.56    49.87
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      Regulation           338 (   40)      121 (   40)    11.83    33.06    17.43
  Positive_regulation     1186 (  218)      528 (  218)    18.38    41.29    25.44
  Negative_regulation      416 (   64)      157 (   64)    15.38    40.76    22.34
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1940 (  322)      806 (  322)    16.60    39.95    23.45
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3520 (  977)     1853 (  977)    27.76    52.73    36.37
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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 (   32)       34 (   32)    18.39    94.12    30.77
        Binding            398 (  145)      250 (  145)    36.43    58.00    44.75
    Gene_expression        722 (  379)      515 (  379)    52.49    73.59    61.28
     Transcription         137 (   31)      148 (   31)    22.63    20.95    21.75
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    8)       16 (    8)    57.14    50.00    53.33
    Phosphorylation        135 (   81)       84 (   81)    60.00    96.43    73.97
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1580 (  676)     1047 (  676)    42.78    64.57    51.47
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      Regulation           338 (   48)      121 (   48)    14.20    39.67    20.92
  Positive_regulation     1186 (  236)      527 (  236)    19.90    44.78    27.55
  Negative_regulation      416 (   67)      157 (   67)    16.11    42.68    23.39
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1940 (  351)      805 (  351)    18.09    43.60    25.57
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3520 ( 1027)     1852 ( 1027)    29.18    55.45    38.24
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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