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 The University of New South Wales

Task 1

Strict Matching

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     Event Class          gold (match)   answer (match)   recall    prec.   fscore
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     Localization          174 (   39)       41 (   39)    22.41    95.12    36.28
        Binding            347 (   79)      220 (   79)    22.77    35.91    27.87
    Gene_expression        722 (  347)      501 (  347)    48.06    69.26    56.75
     Transcription         137 (   21)      103 (   21)    15.33    20.39    17.50
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    6)       11 (    6)    42.86    54.55    48.00
    Phosphorylation        135 (   82)      119 (   82)    60.74    68.91    64.57
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1529 (  574)      995 (  574)    37.54    57.69    45.48
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      Regulation           291 (   32)      161 (   32)    11.00    19.88    14.16
  Positive_regulation      983 (  156)      569 (  156)    15.87    27.42    20.10
  Negative_regulation      379 (   61)      232 (   61)    16.09    26.29    19.97
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1653 (  249)      962 (  249)    15.06    25.88    19.04
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3182 (  823)     1957 (  823)    25.86    42.05    32.03
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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 (   40)       41 (   40)    22.99    97.56    37.21
        Binding            347 (   82)      220 (   82)    23.63    37.27    28.92
    Gene_expression        722 (  370)      501 (  370)    51.25    73.85    60.51
     Transcription         137 (   40)      103 (   40)    29.20    38.83    33.33
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    7)       11 (    7)    50.00    63.64    56.00
    Phosphorylation        135 (   85)      119 (   85)    62.96    71.43    66.93
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1529 (  624)      995 (  624)    40.81    62.71    49.45
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      Regulation           291 (   36)      161 (   36)    12.37    22.36    15.93
  Positive_regulation      983 (  171)      569 (  169)    17.40    29.70    21.94
  Negative_regulation      379 (   67)      232 (   67)    17.68    28.88    21.93
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1653 (  274)      962 (  272)    16.58    28.27    20.90
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3182 (  898)     1957 (  896)    28.22    45.78    34.92
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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 (   40)       41 (   40)    22.99    97.56    37.21
        Binding            347 (   82)      220 (   82)    23.63    37.27    28.92
    Gene_expression        722 (  370)      501 (  370)    51.25    73.85    60.51
     Transcription         137 (   40)      103 (   40)    29.20    38.83    33.33
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    7)       11 (    7)    50.00    63.64    56.00
    Phosphorylation        135 (   85)      119 (   85)    62.96    71.43    66.93
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1529 (  624)      995 (  624)    40.81    62.71    49.45
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      Regulation           291 (   36)      161 (   36)    12.37    22.36    15.93
  Positive_regulation      983 (  171)      569 (  169)    17.40    29.70    21.94
  Negative_regulation      379 (   67)      232 (   67)    17.68    28.88    21.93
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1653 (  274)      962 (  272)    16.58    28.27    20.90
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3182 (  898)     1957 (  896)    28.22    45.78    34.92
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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 (   39)       41 (   39)    22.41    95.12    36.28
        Binding            398 (  128)      220 (  128)    32.16    58.18    41.42
    Gene_expression        722 (  347)      501 (  347)    48.06    69.26    56.75
     Transcription         137 (   21)      103 (   21)    15.33    20.39    17.50
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    6)       11 (    6)    42.86    54.55    48.00
    Phosphorylation        135 (   82)      119 (   82)    60.74    68.91    64.57
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1580 (  623)      995 (  623)    39.43    62.61    48.39
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      Regulation           338 (   42)      161 (   42)    12.43    26.09    16.83
  Positive_regulation     1186 (  239)      569 (  239)    20.15    42.00    27.24
  Negative_regulation      416 (   69)      232 (   69)    16.59    29.74    21.30
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1940 (  350)      962 (  350)    18.04    36.38    24.12
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3520 (  973)     1957 (  973)    27.64    49.72    35.53
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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 (   40)       41 (   40)    22.99    97.56    37.21
        Binding            398 (  132)      220 (  132)    33.17    60.00    42.72
    Gene_expression        722 (  370)      501 (  370)    51.25    73.85    60.51
     Transcription         137 (   40)      103 (   40)    29.20    38.83    33.33
  Protein_catabolism        14 (    7)       11 (    7)    50.00    63.64    56.00
    Phosphorylation        135 (   85)      119 (   85)    62.96    71.43    66.93
    ==[EVT-TOTAL]==       1580 (  674)      995 (  674)    42.66    67.74    52.35
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      Regulation           338 (   48)      161 (   48)    14.20    29.81    19.24
  Positive_regulation     1186 (  260)      569 (  258)    21.92    45.34    29.56
  Negative_regulation      416 (   78)      232 (   78)    18.75    33.62    24.07
    ==[REG-TOTAL]==       1940 (  386)      962 (  384)    19.90    39.92    26.56
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    ==[ALL-TOTAL]==       3520 ( 1060)     1957 ( 1058)    30.11    54.06    38.68
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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