Training text chunkers on a silver standard corpus: Can silver replace gold?

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kang, Ning ^a   van Mulligen, Erik M ^a   Kors, Jan A ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; BIOMEDICAL DOMAIN; BIOMEDICAL TEXT; COMBINED SYSTEM; GOLD STANDARDS; NOUN PHRASE; PERCENTAGE POINTS; SUB-DOMAINS;

ABSTRACTING; ANTENNA LOBES; GOLD; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SILVER;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEOPLASM; STANDARD;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84856244914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-17     Document Type: Article

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