BioNLP shared Task 2013 -- An Overview of the Bacteria Biotope Task

Abstract

This paper presents the Bacteria Biotope task of the BioNLP Shared Task 2013, which follows BioNLP-ST-11. The Bacteria Biotope task aims to extract the location of bacteria from scientific web pages and to characterize these locations with respect to the OntoBiotope ontology. Bacteria locations are crucial knowledge in biology for phenotype studies. The paper details the corpus specifications, the evaluation metrics, and it summarizes and discusses the participant results.