BIOSMILE: A semantic role labeling system for biomedical verbs using a maximum-entropy model with automatically generated template features

Table 1 The thirty selected verbs

Verb	Is the verb one of Top 30 frequent verbs in GENIA?	Is the usage different in the newswire and biomedical domains?	# of PAS's in BioProp
activate	Yes	Yes	145
affect	No	No	53
alter	No	No	27
associate	Yes	No	81
bind	Yes	Yes	189
block	No	No	56
decrease	No	No	41
differentiate	No	No	10
encode	Yes	Yes	75
enhance	Yes	No	37
express	Yes	Yes	186
increase	Yes	No	99
induce	Yes	No	263
inhibit	Yes	No	181
interact	No	Yes	34
mediate	Yes	No	103
modulate	No	Yes	22
mutate	No	Yes	5
phosphorylate	No	Yes	12
prevent	No	No	15
promote	No	Yes	13
reduce	No	No	38
regulate	Yes	No	116
repress	No	No	17
signal	No	No	7
stimulate	Yes	No	75
suppress	No	No	37
transactivate	No	Yes	21
transform	No	No	10
trigger	No	No	14

ISSN: 1471-2105