This paper presents a background and overview for task 1 (of 2 tasks) of the KDD Challenge Cup 2002, a competition held in conjunction with the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), July 23-26, 2002. Task 1 dealt with detecting which papers, in a set of fruit fly genetics papers (texts), contained experimental results about gene products (transcripts and proteins), and also within each paper, which genes had experimental results about their products mentioned.1 Keywords KDD Cup, competition, biology, genomics, text mining
Alexander S. Yeh, Lynette Hirschman, Alexander A.