A dictionary-based approach to normalizing gene names in one domain of knowledge from the biomedical literature

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-30

  Galvez, Carmen ^a   de Moya Anegón, Félix ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas en España Artículo publicado originalmente en Letras Libres   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dictionary; Gene name normalization; Genes; Linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855763735     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220411211200301     Document Type: Article

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