BioText Team Report for the TREC 2003 Genomics Track

The BioText project team participated in both tasks of the TREC 2003 genomics track. Key to our approach in the primary task was the use of an organism-name recognition module, a module for recognizing gene name variants, and MeSH descriptors. Text classification improved the results slightly. In the secondary task, the key insight was casting it as a classification problem of choosing between the tithe last sentence of the abstract, although MeSH descriptors helped somewhat in this task as well. These approaches yielded results within the top three groups in both tasks.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: TREC
• Authors: Gaurav Bhalotia, Preslav Nakov, Ariel S. Schwartz, Marti A. Hearst
• Keywords: MeSH Descriptors, Organism-name Recognition Module, TREC 2003, TREC 2003 Genomics, TREC 2008