Author(s): Pérez-Pérez, Martin ; Pérez-Rodríguez, Gael ; Blanco-Míguez, Aitor ; Fdez-Riverola, Florentino ; Valencia, Alfonso ; Krallinger, Martin ; Lourenço, Anália
Date: 2017
Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/47820
Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
Subject(s): TIPS; BeCalm metaserver; Document provider; Annotation server; Continuous evaluation; BioCreative; Text Mining
The TIPS track consisted in a novel experimental task under the umbrella of the BioCreative text mining challenges with the aim to, for the first time ever, carry out a text mining challenge with particular focus on the continuous assessment of technical aspects of text annotation web servers, specifically of biomedical online named entity recognition systems. A total of 13 teams registered annotation servers, implemented in various programming languages, supporting up to 12 different general annotation types. The continuous evaluation period took place from February to March 2017. The systematic and continuous evaluation of server responses accounted for testing periods of low activity and moderate to high activity. Moreover three document provider settings were covered, including also NCBI PubMed. For a total of 4,092,502 requests, the median response time for most servers was below 3.74 s with a median of 10 annotations/document. Most of the servers showed great reliability and stability, being able to process 100,000 requests in 5 days.
