A protocol for constructing a domain-specific ontology for use in biomedical information extraction using lexical-chaining analysis
In order to do more semantics-based information extraction, we require specialized domain models. We develop a hybrid approach for constructing such a domain-specific ontology, which integrates key concepts from the protein-protein–interaction domain with the Gene Ontology. In addition, we present a...
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| Language: | en |
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2007
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2663 |
| Summary: | In order to do more semantics-based information extraction, we require specialized domain models. We develop a hybrid approach for constructing such a domain-specific ontology, which integrates key concepts from the protein-protein–interaction domain with the Gene Ontology. In addition, we present a method for using the domain-specific ontology in a discourse-based analysis module for analyzing full-text articles on protein interactions. The analysis module uses a lexical chaining technique to extract strings of semantically related words that represent the topic structure of the text. We show that the domain-specific ontology improved the performance of the lexical-chaining module. As well the topic structure as represented by the lexical chains contains important information on protein-protein interactions appearing in the same textual context. |
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