Background and Overview for KDD Cup 2002 Task 1: Information Extraction from Biomedical Articles Alexander S. Yeh, Lynette Hirschman, and Alexander A. Morgan   View Paper (PDF)   Return to December 2002 - Volume 4, Issue 2 Abstract This paper presents a background and overview for task 1 (of 2 tasks) of the KDD Challenge Cup 2002, a competition held in conjunction with the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), July 23-26, 2002. Task 1 dealt with detecting which papers, in a set of fruit fly genetics papers (texts), contained experimental results about gene products (transcripts and proteins), and also within each paper, which genes had experimental results about their products mentioned. DiSC'03 © 2003 Association for Computing Machinery