Feature selection techniques for maximum entropy based biomedical named entity recognition

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 905-911

  Saha, Sujan Kumar ^a   Sarkar, Sudeshna ^a   Mitra, Pabitra ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Biomedical named entity recognition; Feature reduction; Feature selection; Machine learning; Maximum entropy classifier

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; FEATURE REDUCTION; FEATURE SELECTION; MACHINE LEARNING; MAXIMUM ENTROPY CLASSIFIER;

CLASSIFIERS; EDUCATION; ENTROPY; GENES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA; ROBOT LEARNING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA SYNTHESIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MACHINE LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NAMES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 70349452071     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2008.12.012     Document Type: Article

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