In task 1A of the BioCreAtIvE evaluation, systems had to be devised that recognize words and phrases forming gene or protein names in natural language sentences. We approach this ...
Many applications make use of named entity classification. Machine learning is the preferred technique adopted for many named entity classification methods where the choice of feat...
In lots of natural language processing tasks, the classes to be dealt with often occur heavily imbalanced in the underlying data set and classifiers trained on such skewed data t...
In this paper, we present a method that automatically constructs a Named Entity (NE) tagged corpus from the web to be used for learning of Named Entity Recognition systems. We use...
This paper presents the evaluation of the dictionary look-up component of Mayo Clinic's Information Extraction system. The component was tested on a corpus of 160 free-text c...
Karin Schuler, Vinod Kaggal, James J. Masanz, Phil...