Enhancing HMM-based biomedical named entity recognition by studying special phenomena

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 411-422

  Zhang, Jie ^a,b   Shen, Dan ^a,b   Zhou, Guodong ^a   Su, Jian ^a   Tan, Chew Lim ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Abbreviation recognition; Biomedical named entity recognition; Cascaded named entity recognition; HMM

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL DOMAINS; ENTITY RECOGNITION;

MARKOV PROCESSES; MORPHOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RESEARCH; SEMANTICS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DATA BASE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

ABBREVIATIONS; ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NAMES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SOFTWARE; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 8444239684     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2004.08.005     Document Type: Article

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