BioCreAtIvE Task 1A: gene mention finding evaluation

Background: The biological research literature is a major repository of knowledge. As the amount of literature increases, it will get harder to find the information of interest on a particular topic. There has been an increasing amount of work on text mining this literature, but comparing this work is hard because of a lack of standards for making comparisons. To address this, we worked with colleagues at the Protein Design Group, CNB-CSIC, Madrid to develop BioCreAtIvE (Critical Assessment for Information Extraction in Biology), an open common evaluation of systems on a number of biological text mining tasks. We report here on task 1A, which deals with finding mentions of genes and related entities in text. "Finding mentions" is a basic task, which can be used as a building block for other text mining tasks. The task makes use of data and evaluation software provided by the (US) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Results: 15 teams took part in task 1A. A ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2005
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Alexander S. Yeh, Alexander A. Morgan, Marc E. Colosimo, Lynette Hirschman
• Keywords: Biological Research Literature, BMCBI 2005, Major Repository, Text Mining Tasks