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    "abstract": "We introduce a relation extraction method to identify the sentences in biomedical text that indicate an interaction among the protein names mentioned. Our approach is based on the analysis of the paths between two protein names in the dependency parse trees of the sentences. Given two dependency trees, we define two separate similarity functions (kernels) based on cosine similarity and edit distance among the paths between the protein names. Using these similarity functions, we investigate the performances of two classes of learning algorithms, Support Vector Machines and k-nearest-neighbor, and the semisupervised counterparts of these algorithms, transductive SVMs and harmonic functions, respectively. Significant improvement over the previous results in the literature is reported as well as a new benchmark dataset is introduced. Semi-supervised algorithms perform better than their supervised version by a wide margin especially when the amount of labeled data is limited.",
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                "text": "Protein-protein interactions play an important role in vital biological processes such as metabolic and signaling pathways, cell cycle control, and DNA replication and transcription (Phizicky and Fields, 1995) . A number of (mostly manually curated) databases such as MINT (Zanzoni et al., 2002) , BIND , and SwissProt (Bairoch and Apweiler, 2000) have been created to store protein interaction information in structured and standard formats. However, the amount of biomedical literature regarding protein interactions is increasing rapidly and it is difficult for interaction database curators to detect and curate protein interaction information manually. Thus, most of the protein interaction information remains hidden in the text of the papers in the biomedical literature. Therefore, the development of information extraction and text mining techniques for automatic extraction of protein interaction information from free texts has become an important research area.",
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                "text": "In this paper, we introduce an information extraction approach to identify sentences in text that indicate an interaction relation between two proteins. Our method is different than most of the previous studies (see Section 2) on this problem in two aspects: First, we generate the dependency parses of the sentences that we analyze, making use of the dependency relationships among the words. This enables us to make more syntax-aware inferences about the roles of the proteins in a sentence compared to the classical pattern-matching information extraction methods. Second, we investigate semisupervised machine learning methods on top of the dependency features we generate. Although there have been a number of learning-based studies in this domain, our methods are the first semi-supervised efforts to our knowledge. The high cost of labeling free text for this problem makes semi-supervised methods particularly valuable.",
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                "text": "We focus on two semi-supervised learning methods: transductive SVMs (TSVM) (Joachims, 1999) , and harmonic functions (Zhu et al., 2003) . We also compare these two methods with their supervised counterparts, namely SVMs and k-nearest neighbor algorithm. Because of the nature of these algorithms, we propose two similarity functions (kernels in SVM terminology) among the instances of the learning problem. The instances in this problem are natural language sentences with protein names in them, and the similarity functions are defined on the positions of the protein names in the corresponding parse trees. Our motivating assumption is that the path between two protein names in a dependency tree is a good description of the semantic relation between them in the corresponding sentence. We consider two similarity functions; one based on the cosine similarity and the other based on the edit distance among such paths.",
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                "text": "Machine learning techniques for extracting protein interaction information have gained interest in the recent years. The PreBIND system uses SVM to identify the existence of protein interactions in abstracts and uses this type of information to enhance manual expert reviewing for the BIND database (Donaldson et al., 2003) . Words and word bigrams are used as binary features. This system is also tested with the Naive Bayes classifier, but SVM is reported to perform better. Mitsumori et al. (2006) also use SVM to extract protein-protein interactions. They use bag-of-words features, specifically the words around the protein names. These systems do not use any syntactic or semantic information. Sugiyama et al. (2003) extract features from the sentences based on the verbs and nouns in the sentences such as the verbal forms, and the part of speech tags of the 20 words surrounding the verb (10 before and 10 after it). Further features are used to indicate whether a noun is found, as well as the part of speech tags for the 20 words surrounding the noun, and whether the noun contains numerical characters, non-alpha characters, or uppercase letters. They construct k-nearest neighbor, decision tree, neural network, and SVM classifiers by using these features. They report that the SVM classifier performs the best. They use part-of-speech information, but do not consider any dependency or semantic information.",
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                "text": "In Table 2 , we also show the results obtained previously in the literature by using the same data set. Yakushiji et al. (2005) use an HPSG parser to produce predicate argument structures. They utilize these structures to automatically construct protein interaction extraction rules. Mitsumori et al. (2006) use SVM with the unparsed text around the protein names as features to extract protein interaction sentences. Here, we show their best result obtained by using the three words to the left and to the right of the proteins. The most closely related study to ours is that by Bunescu and Mooney (2005a) . They define a kernel function based on the shortest path between two entities of a relationship in the dependency parse tree of a sentence (the SPK method). They apply this method to the domain of protein-protein interaction extraction in (Bunescu and Mooney, 2006) . Here, they also test the methods ELCS (Extraction Using Longest Common Subsequences) (Bunescu et al., 2005) and SSK (Subsequence Kernel) (Bunescu and Mooney, 2005b) . We cannot compare our results to theirs directly, because they report their results as a precisionrecall graph. However, the best F-score in their graph seems to be around 0.50 and definitely lower than the best F-scores we have achieved (\u2248 0.59). Bunescu and Mooney (2006) also use SVM as their learning method in their SPK approach. They define their similarity based on the number of overlapping words between two paths and assign a similarity of zero if the two paths have different lengths. Our improved performance with SVM and the shortest path dependency features may be due to the editdistance based kernel, which takes into account not only the overlapping words, but also word order and accounts for deletions and insertions of words. Our results show that, SVM, TSVM, and harmonic functions achieve better F-score and recall performances than the previous studies by Yakushiji et al. (2005) , Mitsumori et al. (2006) , and the SSK and ELCS approaches of Bunescu and Mooney (2006) . SVM and TSVM also achieve higher precision scores. Since, Mitsumori et al. (2006) also use SVM in their study, our improved results with SVM confirms our motivation of using dependency paths as features. Table 3 shows the results we got with the CB data set. The F-score performance with the edit distance based similarity function is always better than that of cosine similarity function for this data set. The difference in performances is considerable for harmonic functions and kNN. Our best F-score is achieved with TSVM with edit kernel (85.22%). TSVM performs slightly better than SVM. When cosine similarity function is used, kNN performs better than harmonic functions. However, when edit distance based similarity is used, harmonic functions achieve better performance. SVM and TSVM perform better than harmonic functions. But, the gap in performance is low when edit distance based similarity is used with harmonic functions. (Yakushiji et al., 2005) 33.70 33.10 33.40 (Mitsumori et al., 2006) 54.20 42.60 47.70 Semi-supervised approaches are usually more effective when there is less labeled data than unlabeled data, which is usually the case in real applications. To see the effect of semi-supervised approaches we perform experiments by varying the amount of la- Figure 2 : The F-score on the AIMED dataset with varying sizes of training data beled training sentences in the range [10, 3000] . For each labeled training set size, sentences are selected randomly among all the sentences, and the remaining sentences are used as the unlabeled test set. The results that we report are the averages over 10 such random runs for each labeled training set size. 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