Adaptive string similarity metrics for biomedical reference resolution

ACL-ISMB 2005 - Linking Biological Literature, Ontologies and Databases: Mining Biological Semantics, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 9-16

  Wellner, Ben ^a   Castaño, José ^b   Pustejovsky, James ^b  

^a MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

F MEASURE; FULL REFERENCES; REFERENCE RESOLUTION; RESOLUTION SYSTEMS; SIMILARITY METRICS; SINGLE COMPONENTS; STANDARD METRICS; STRING SIMILARITY; UMLS METATHESAURUS;

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EID: 35748935382     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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