Unsupervised biomedical named entity recognition: Experiments with clinical and biological texts

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1088-1098

  Zhang, Shaodian ^a   Elhadad, Noémie ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Chunking; Distributional semantics; Named entity recognition; Natural language processing; UMLS

Indexed keywords

CHUNKING; DISTRIBUTIONAL SEMANTICS; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; UMLS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); EXPERIMENTS; SEMANTICS; TEXT PROCESSING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; CLASSIFICATION; DATA EXTRACTION; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

CHUNKING; DISTRIBUTIONAL SEMANTICS; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; UMLS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84888192341     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2013.08.004     Document Type: Article

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