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¹Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA. arighi@dbi.udel.edu

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The BioCreative III InterActive Task (IAT) highlighted the need for user involvement in developing text mining tools for biocuration. While usability was appreciated, system performance, particularly gene normalization accuracy, requires improvement for effective biological data curation.

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Area of Science:

Biomedical Informatics
Computational Biology
Text Mining

Background:

The BioCreative challenge series aims to evaluate text mining systems for the biological domain.
Previous challenges focused on system capabilities but not user adoption in biocuration workflows.
The BioCreative III InterActive Task (IAT) was introduced to assess the utility and usability of text mining tools for biocuration.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the utility and usability of interactive text mining systems for biocuration tasks.
To foster collaboration between text mining developers and biocurators.
To gather user feedback for improving text mining tool design.

Main Methods:

The InterActive Task (IAT) focused on gene normalization, ranking, and document retrieval.
A User Advisory Group (UAG) of biocurators participated in system design and assessment.
Six systems were evaluated using problematic articles, with user feedback collected via questionnaires.

Main Results:

System usability was generally well-received, but performance, especially gene normalization accuracy, was suboptimal.
Issues included species identification failures and gene name ambiguity, leading to extensive and sometimes irrelevant gene identifier lists.
Document retrieval also suffered from similar performance shortfalls.

Conclusions:

The IAT facilitated dialogue between curators and developers, enhancing mutual understanding of challenges.
Active user involvement throughout the software development lifecycle is crucial.
The task provided foundational steps for defining metrics for evaluating interactive curation systems in future BioCreative challenges.