Bc2GmCorpus

In this task participants designed systems to identify substrings in sentences corresponding to gene name mentions. A variety of different methods were used and the results varied with a highest achieved F1 score of 0.8721.

Here we present brief descriptions of all the methods used and a statistical analysis of the results. We also demonstrate that, by combining the results from all submissions, an F score of 0.9066 is feasible, and furthermore that the best result makes use of the lowest scoring submissions. For more details, see: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2559986/ The original dataset can be downloaded from: biocreative.bioinformatics.udel.edu/resources/corpora/biocreative-ii-corpus/ This dataset has been converted to CoNLL format for NER using the following tool: github.com/spyysalo/standoff2conll