U-Compare bio-event meta-service: Compatible BioNLP event extraction services

Yoshinobu Kano, Jari Björne, Filip Ginter, Tapio Salakoski, Ekaterina Buyko, Udo Hahn, K. Bretonnel Cohen, Karin Verspoor, Christophe Roeder, Lawrence E. Hunter, Halil Kilicoglu, Sabine Bergler, Sofie Van Landeghem, Thomas Van Parys, Yves Van de Peer, Makoto Miwa, Sophia Ananiadou, Mariana Neves, Alberto Pascual-Montano, Arzucan ÖzgürDragomir R. Radev, Sebastian Riedel, Rune Sætre, Hong Woo Chun, Jin Dong Kim, Sampo Pyysalo, Tomoko Ohta, Jun'ichi Tsujii

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Abstract

Background Bio-molecular event extraction from literature is recognized as an important task of bio text mining and, as such, many relevant systems have been developed and made available during the last decade. While such systems provide useful services individually, there is a need for a meta-service to enable comparison and ensemble of such services, offering optimal solutions for various purposes. Results We have integrated nine event extraction systems in the U-Compare framework, making them inter-compatible and interoperable with other U-Compare components. The U-Compare event meta-service provides various meta-level features for comparison and ensemble of multiple event extraction systems. Experimental results show that the performance improvements achieved by the ensemble are significant. ConclusionsWhile individual event extraction systems themselves provide useful features for bio text mining, the U-Compare meta-service is expected to improve the accessibility to the individual systems, and to enable meta-level uses over multiple event extraction systems such as comparison and ensemble.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number481
JournalBMC bioinformatics
Volume12
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 18 2011
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Structural Biology
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics

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