Smith, LarryTanabe, LorraineKuo, Cheng-JuMaña López, Manuel JesúsMata Vázquez, Jacinto2020-07-012020-07-012008-09Smith, L., Tanabe, L., Kuo, C., Maña López, M. J. ... Mata Vázquez, J. (2008). Overview of BioCreative II gene mention recognition. Genome Biology 2008, 9(Suppl 2):S2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2008-9-s2-s2.1474-760Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10272/18413Nineteen teams presented results for the Gene Mention Task at the BioCreative II Workshop. In this task participants designed systems to identify substrings in sentences corresponding to gene name mentions. A variety of different methods were used and the results varied with a highest achieved F1 score of 0.8721. Here we present brief descriptions of all the methods used and a statistical analysis of the results. We also demonstrate that, by combining the results from all submissions, an F score of 0.9066 is feasible, and furthermore that the best result makes use of the lowest scoring submissions.engAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Españahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/BioCreativeGene mention recognitionjournal article10.1186/gb-2008-9-S2-S2open access