Biomedical event annotation with CRFs and precision grammars

  • Authors:
  • Andrew MacKinlay;David Martinez;Timothy Baldwin

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia;University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia;University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia

  • Venue:
  • BioNLP '09 Proceedings of the Workshop on Current Trends in Biomedical Natural Language Processing: Shared Task
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This work describes a system for the tasks of identifying events in biomedical text and marking those that are speculative or negated. The architecture of the system relies on both Machine Learning (ML) approaches and hand-coded precision grammars. We submitted the output of our approach to the event extraction shared task at BioNLP 2009, where our methods suffered from low recall, although we were one of the few teams to provide answers for task 3.