Entity linking for biomedical literature.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The Entity Linking (EL) task links entity mentions from an unstructured document to entities in a knowledge base. Although this problem is well-studied in news and social media, this problem has not received much attention in the life science domain. One outcome of tackling the EL problem in the life sciences domain is to enable scientists to build computational models of biological processes with more efficiency. However, simply applying a news-trained entity linker produces inadequate results.

Authors

  • Jin G Zheng
  • Daniel Howsmon
  • Boliang Zhang
  • Juergen Hahn
  • Deborah McGuinness
  • James Hendler
    1 Rensselaer Institute for Data Exploration and Application, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , Troy, New York.
  • Heng Ji