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Table 1 Summary of the main approaches to biomedical anaphora resolution

From: Resolving anaphoras for the extraction of drug-drug interactions in pharmacological documents

Authors

Approach

Corpus

Results

Castano et al. [13]

Scoring method

46 medline abstract

F=0.74

Lin et al. [14]

Scoring method

32 MedLine abstract (MedStract)

F=0.92 pronominal, F=0.78 nominal

Kim et al. [18]

Centering theory for pronominal anaphors and scoring method for nominal anaphors

120 biological interactions

F=0.64 pronominal, F=0.59 nominal

Liang and Lin [17]

Scoring method

MedStract + 100 Med- Line abstract

F=0.87 pronominal, F=0.80 nominal

Segura-Bedmar et al., [26]

Scoring method and a set of semantic and morphological restrictions

49 MedLine abstracts

F=0.85 pronominal, F=0.50 nominal

Nguyen and Kim [23]

Maximum Entropy ranker model

Genia

Success rate: 79.55%