Review Article

An Overview of Biomolecular Event Extraction from Scientific Documents

Table 1

Most common features used in the main event detection stages.

Feature groupsFeaturesTrigger recognitionEdge detection

TokenPart-of-speechXX
Lemma
OrthographicX
Char n-gramsX
Word shapeX
Prefixes/suffixesX

Sentence and local contextNumber of entitiesX
BoW countsX
Windows or conjunctions of featuresX

DependencyNumber and type of dependency edgesX
Words, lemmas, or POS tags in dependency pathXX
N-grams in dependency pathXX

External resourcesWordNet lemmasXX
Trigger lexiconXX
Entity lexiconXX