A system for identifying named entities in biomedical text: How results from two evaluations reflect on both the system and the evaluations

Comparative and Functional Genomics

Volumn 6, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 77-85

  Dingare, Shipra ^a   Nissim, Malvina ^a   Finkel, Jenny ^b   Manning, Christopher ^b   Grover, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic named entity recognition; Manual annotation of biomedical texts

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT REPORT; BIOMEDICINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENTROPY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

NES;

EID: 16244414355     PISSN: 15316912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cfg.457     Document Type: Conference Paper

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