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JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL SEMANTICS
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13326-017-0157-6
Keywords
Named entity recognition; Text mining; Machine learning; Natural language processing
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- Swiss National Science Foundation [CR30I1_162758]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [CR30I1_162758] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Background: This article describes a high-recall, high-precision approach for the extraction of biomedical entities from scientific articles. Method: The approach uses a two-stage pipeline, combining a dictionary-based entity recognizer with a machine-learning classifier. First, the OGER entity recognizer, which has a bias towards high recall, annotates the terms that appear in selected domain ontologies. Subsequently, the Distiller framework uses this information as a feature for a machine learning algorithm to select the relevant entities only. For this step, we compare two different supervised machine-learning algorithms: Conditional Random Fields and Neural Networks. Results: In an in-domain evaluation using the CRAFT corpus, we test the performance of the combined systems when recognizing chemicals, cell types, cellular components, biological processes, molecular functions, organisms, proteins, and biological sequences. Our best system combines dictionary-based candidate generation with Neural-Network-based filtering. It achieves an overall precision of 86% at a recall of 60% on the named entity recognition task, and a precision of 51% at a recall of 49% on the concept recognition task. Conclusion: These results are to our knowledge the best reported so far in this particular task.
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