A method for named entity normalization in biomedical articles: application to diseases and plants

Abstract Background In biomedical articles, a named entity recognition (NER) technique that identifies entity names from texts is an important element for extracting biological knowledge from articles. After NER is applied to articles, the next step is to normalize the identified names into standard...

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Main Authors: Hyejin Cho, Wonjun Choi, Hyunju Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-10-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-017-1857-8