Recognizing names in biomedical texts using mutual information independence model and SVM plus sigmoid

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 456-467

  Zhou, G D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Biomedical name recognition; Mutual information independence model; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ABBREVIATION PHENOMENA; BIOMEDICAL NAME RECOGNITION; MUTUAL INFORMATION INDEPENDENCE MODEL (MIIM); SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

TEXT PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; DATA ANALYSIS; MACHINE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICINE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PERIODICALS; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 33646152515     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2005.06.012     Document Type: Article

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