Hierarchical sequence labeling for extracting BEL statements from biomedical literature.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Extracting relations between bio-entities from biomedical literature is often a challenging task and also an essential step towards biomedical knowledge expansion. The BioCreative community has organized a shared task to evaluate the robustness of the causal relationship extraction algorithms in Biological Expression Language (BEL) from biomedical literature.

Authors

  • Suwen Liu
    School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
  • Yifan Shao
    School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
  • Longhua Qian
    School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, 1 Shizi Street, Suzhou, China.
  • Guodong Zhou
    School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, 1 Shizi Street, Suzhou, China.