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New benchmark improves biological literature retrieval for model organisms

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Researchers have developed a new retrieval benchmark for Dictyostelium, a model organism in cell and developmental biology, to address the challenges of sparse literature and organism-specific terminology. The benchmark, derived from dictyBase and linked to PubMed, includes curator-generated queries and structured gene annotations. Their study explored the impact of cross-encoder reranking, gene-aware query expansion, and full-text retrieval, finding that these methods can selectively improve accuracy, especially when abstracts lack crucial evidence. AI

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New benchmark improves biological literature retrieval for model organisms

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Yun Wang, Gad Shaulsky, Toma\v{z} Curk, Bla\v{z} Zupan ·

    Benchmarking Literature Retrieval for a Model Organism: A Dictyostelium Case Study

    arXiv:2610.03130v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Biological literature retrieval systems are often developed and evaluated using broad biomedical corpora and general-purpose search tasks. However, many curated knowledge bases operate in narrower model-organism domains, where the…

  2. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Blaž Zupan ·

    Benchmarking Literature Retrieval for a Model Organism: A Dictyostelium Case Study

    Biological literature retrieval systems are often developed and evaluated using broad biomedical corpora and general-purpose search tasks. However, many curated knowledge bases operate in narrower model-organism domains, where the literature is sparse and terminology is organism-…

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