BioEve: Bio-Molecular Event Extraction from Text Using Semantic Classification and Dependency Parsing

In this paper, we present BioEve a fully automated event extraction system for bio-medical text. It first semantically classifies each sentence to the class type of the event mentioned in the sentence, and then using high coverage hand-crafted rules, it extracts the participants of that event. We participated in Task 1 of BioNLP 2009 Shared task, and the final evaluation results are described here. Our experimentation with different approaches to classify a sentence to bio-interaction classes are also shared.