Disentangling the structure of tables in scientific literature

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 9612, Issue , 2016, Pages 162-174

  Milosevic, Nikola ^a   Gregson, Cassie ^b   Hernandez, Robert ^c   Nenadic, Goran ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^c Kellogg Europe   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data management; Data modelling; Natural language processing; Table mining; Text mining

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA MINING; DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODELING LANGUAGES;

CELL FUNCTIONS; CLINICAL TRIAL; F-SCORE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; STATISTICAL INFORMATION; TEXT MINING; TRANSFORM TABLES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84977494204     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41754-7_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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