Training text chunkers on a silver standard corpus: can silver replace gold?

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>To train chunkers in recognizing noun phrases and verb phrases in biomedical text, an annotated corpus is required. The creation of gold standard corpora (GSCs), however, is expensive and time-consuming. GSCs therefore tend to be sma...

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Main Authors: Kang Ning, van Mulligen Erik M, Kors Jan A
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-01-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/13/17