Table 9.

Performance on the gene normalization task by the top 4 performing teams in the BioCreative III competition

Teams		Gold standard (50 selected articles)			Silver standard (50 selected articles)			Silver standard (All 507 articles)
		TAP-5	TAP-10	TAP-20	TAP-5	TAP-10	TAP-20	TAP-5	TAP-10	TAP-20
Kuo et al. (Team 74)	1st run	0.2137	0.2509	0.2509	0.3820	0.3820	0.3820	0.4873	0.4873	0.4873
	2nd run	0.2083	0.2480	0.2480	0.3855	0.3855	0.3855	0.4871	0.4871	0.4871
	3rd run	0.2099	0.2495	0.2495	0.3890	0.3890	0.3890	0.4916	0.4916	0.4916
Our method (Team 83)	1st run	0.3254	0.3538	0.3535	0.3567	0.3600	0.3600	0.4591	0.4591	0.4591
	2nd run	0.3216	0.3435	0.3435	0.3291	0.3291	0.3291	0.4323	0.4323	0.4323
	3rd run	0.3297	0.3514	0.3514	0.3382	0.3382	0.3382	0.4327	0.4327	0.4327
Liu et al. (Team 98)	1st run	0.2835	0.3012	0.3103	0.3343	0.3535	0.3629	0.3818	0.3899	0.3875
	2nd run	0.2909	0.3079	0.3087	0.3354	0.3543	0.3634	0.3790	0.3878	0.3868
	3rd run	0.3013	0.3183	0.3303	0.3710	0.4116	0.4672	0.4086	0.4511	0.4648
Lai et al. (Team 101)	1st run	0.1896	0.2288	0.2385	0.3590	0.3859	0.3859	0.4289	0.4289	0.4289
	2nd run	0.1672	0.2150	0.2418	0.3239	0.3945	0.4132	0.4294	0.4408	0.4408
	3rd run	0.1812	0.2141	0.2425	0.3258	0.4109	0.4109	0.4536	0.4536	0.4536