Machine learning and word sense disambiguation in the biomedical domain: design and evaluation issues

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is critical in the biomedical domain for improving the precision of natural language processing (NLP), text mining, and information retrieval systems because ambiguous words negatively impact accurate...

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Main Authors: Liu Hongfang, Dimova Rositsa, Markatou Marianthi, Xu Hua, Friedman Carol
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2006-07-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/7/334