M: Biomedical Event Extraction from Abstracts and Full Papers using Search-based Structured Prediction

In this paper we describe our approach to the BioNLP 2011 shared task on biomedical event extraction from abstracts and full pa-pers. We employ a joint inference system de-veloped using the search-based structured pre-diction framework and show that it improves on a pipeline using the same features and it is better able to handle the domain shift from ab-stracts to full papers. In addition, we report on experiments using a simple domain adaptation method.