A gene normalization system developed by the AIIA Lab
(Led by research fellow Chun-Nan Hsu), Institute of Information Science,
was ranked first in the BioCreative III challenge evaluation of
biological text mining held on September 13-15, 2010, in Bethesda, MD, USA.
Nine different methods were used to rank competing systems, and the AIIA's system was
ranked at the top by one method and consistently in second or third place by all the others.
The task of gene normalization is to convert a gene mention in a text to
a standard gene ID. The task is challenging due to the absence of a
comprehensive dictionary, and high ambiguity among genes of different species.