Penn/Umass/CHOP Biocreative II systems
Kuzman Ganchev, Koby Crammer, Fernando M. B. Pereira, Gideon S. Mann, Kedar Bellare, Andrew McCallum, Steve Carroll, Yang Jin, Peter S. White · ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst) · 2007
Our team participated in the entity tagging and normalization tasks of Biocreative II. For the entity tagging task, we used a k-best MIRA learning algorithm with lexicons and automatically derived word clusters. MIRA accommodates different training loss functions, which allowed us to exploit gene alternatives in training. We also performed a greedy search over feature templates and the development data, achieving a final F-measure of 86.28%. For the normalization task, we proposed a new specialized on-line learning algorithm and applied it for filtering out false positives from a high recall list of candidates. For normalization we received an F-measure of 69.8%.