Gene Mention Tagging with CRFs and Parsing 1 Tackling the BioCreative 2 Gene Mention task with Conditional Random Fields and Syntactic Parsing

This paper presents an approach to Gene Mention tagging using Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) and syntactic parsing, by taking advantage of the flexibility of the former in order to add features from the output of the latter. We did not use any material or information other than the training data provided in order to maintain the domain independence of the system. Nevertheless, the resulting system achieved 82.84% F-score, which places it in the second performance quartile of the competition.