NERBio: using selected word conjunctions, term normalization, and global patterns to improve biomedical named entity recognition

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Biomedical named entity recognition (Bio-NER) is a challenging problem because, in general, biomedical named entities of the same category (e.g., proteins and genes) do not follow one standard nomenclature. They have many irregularit...

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Main Authors: Hung Hsieh-Chuan, Dai Hong-Jie, Sung Cheng-Lung, Tsai Richard, Sung Ting-Yi, Hsu Wen-Lian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2006-12-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-7-S5-S11