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. 2013 Mar 26;25(3):794–807. doi: 10.1105/tpc.112.108753

Table 2. Systematic Evaluation of Text Mining Events from 1176 PubMed Abstracts Related to Arabidopsis.

Event Type No. of Evaluated Events Correct Event Type
Correct Event Type and Arguments
Single-argument binding 259 22 8% 19 7%
Double-argument binding 431 402 93% 317 74%
Phosphorylation 314 307 98% 204 65%
Transcription 89 53 60% 41 46%
Gene expression 53 49 92% 43 81%
Regulation (unspecified) 385 360 94% 270 70%
Positive regulation 208 166 80% 119 57%
Negative regulation 48 44 92% 35 73%
All 1787 1403 79% 1048 59%

This PLEV corpus is available as Supplemental Data Set 1 online. For every event type, the evaluated events were randomly picked. All regulatory events assigned to a certain polarity (positive/negative) were also evaluated as unspecified regulation.