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Community evaluations: from bioinformatics to NLP. CAMDA, Critical Assessment of Microarray Data Analysis; CAPRI, Critical Assessment of PRediction of Interactions; CASP, Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction; GASP, Genome Annotation Assessment Project; IE, information extraction; IR, information retrieval; JNLPBA, Joint Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine and its Applications; KDD, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; LLL, Learning Language in Logic; MUC, Message Understanding Conference; NLP, natural language processing; DREAM, Dialogue on Reverse Engineering Assessment and Methods; RTE, Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge; SEMEVAL, Semantic Evaluations; SENSEVAL, Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Systems; TREC, Text Retrieval Conference.