Biological relation extraction and query answering from MEDLINE abstracts using ontology-based text mining

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 228-262

  Abulaish, Muhammad ^a   Dey, Lipika ^b  

^a JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Biological query processing; Biological relation extraction; Ontology; Text mining

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; DATA MINING; DATA STRUCTURES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; ONTOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND QUERY ANSWERING (BIEQA) SYSTEMS; BIOLOGICAL QUERY PROCESSING; BIOLOGICAL RELATION EXTRACTION; TEXT MINING;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 33947136723     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2006.06.007     Document Type: Article

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