Sortal anaphora resolution to enhance relation extraction from biomedical literature

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Kilicoglu, Halil ^a   Rosemblat, Graciela ^a   Fiszman, Marcelo ^a   Rindflesch, Thomas C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical literature; Natural language processing; Semantic relation extraction; Sortal anaphora resolution

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ONTOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTICS;

BIOLOGICAL ONTOLOGIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84963632134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-016-1009-6     Document Type: Article

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