Exploiting semantic annotations for open information extraction: An experience in the biomedical domain

Knowledge and Information Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 365-389

  Nebot, Victoria ^a   Berlanga, Rafael ^a  

^a Institute of New Imaging Technologies   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biomedical domain; Relation extraction; Semantic annotation; Unsupervised IE

Indexed keywords

DRUG INTERACTIONS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MACHINERY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROTEINS; SCALABILITY; SEMANTICS;

BIOMEDICAL DOMAIN; DOMAIN INDEPENDENTS; DRUG-DRUG INTERACTIONS; PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS; RELATION EXTRACTION; SEAMLESS INTEGRATION; SEMANTIC ANNOTATIONS; UNSUPERVISED IE;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84892849020     PISSN: 02191377     EISSN: 02193116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10115-012-0590-x     Document Type: Article

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