We analyze critically the use of classi cation accuracy to compare classi ers on natural data sets, providing a thorough investigation using ROC analysis, standard machine learnin...
Background: In recent years, the recognition of semantic types from the biomedical scientific literature has been focused on named entities like protein and gene names (PGNs) and ...
The knowledge to be acquired for the development of knowledge based systems is often distributed across a group of experts rather than available for elicitation from a single expe...
Information retrieval systems, based on keyword match, are evolving to question answering systems that return short passages or direct answers to questions, rather than URLs point...
Perhaps the most common question that a microarray study can ask is, “Between two given biological conditions, which genes exhibit changed expression levels?” Existing methods...
Will Sheffler, Eli Upfal, John Sedivy, William Sta...