Uncovering Protein-Protein Interactions in the Bibliome

We participated in three of the Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI)subtasks: Protein Interaction Article Sub-task 1 (IAS), Protein Interaction Pairs Sub-task 2 (IPS), and Protein Interaction Sentences Sub-task 3 (ISS). Our approach includes a feature detection method based on a spamdetection algorithm. For IAS we submitted three runs from distinct classification methods: the novel Variable Threshold Protein Mention Model, Support Vector Machines, and an integration method based on measures of uncertainty and a nearest neighbor predictor on the eigenvector space obtained via the Singular Value Decomposition of the feature/abstract matrix. For IPS and ISS we used the features discovered from IAS abstracts as well as features from training IPS and ISS data to predict appropriate passages and pairs. We also used the number of protein mentions in a passage as a feature.