Devalopment Data for BioNLP'09 Shared Task on Event Extraction - Contains 150 PubMed abstracts and their protein annotations. - For format details, please refer to the shared task homepage. http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/GENIA/SharedTask/ File Descriptions: *.txt files contain the target text. Each of these files consists of two lines, one for the title and one for the abstract. *.a1 files contain standoff annotations for proteins. *.a2 files contain standoff annotations for other named entities and events. For training, the participants will be provided with these files. For test, the participants have to create this annotation. History: 3 July 2009, released to public. 16 February 2009, The first revision released. - The gold event annotation files (*.a2 files) are included. - The other files remain the same. 7 February 2009, The first version released. Authors: BioNLP'09 Shared Task organizers, bionlpsharedtask@gmail.com http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/GENIA/SharedTask/