2002 ProteinNamesAndHowToFindThem
- (FEOAL, 2002) ⇒ Kristofer Franzen, Gunnar Eriksson, Fredrik Olsson. (2002). “Protein names and how to find them." Elsevier. International Journal of Medical Informatics, Volume 67, Issue 1 - 3, Pages 49 - 61
Subject Headings: Named Entity Recognition Task
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Abstract
- A prerequisite for all higher level information extraction tasks is the identification of unknown names in text. Today, when large corpora can consist of billions of words, it is of utmost importance to develop accurate techniques for the automatic detection, extraction and categorization of named entities in these corpora. Although named entity recognition might be regarded a solved problem in some domains, it still poses a significant challenge in others. In this work we focus on one of the more difficult tasks, the identification of protein names in text. This task presents several interesting difficulties because of the named entities variant structural characteristics, their sometimes unclear status as names, the lack of common standards and fixed nomenclatures, and the specifics of the texts in the molecular biology domain in which they appear. We describe how we approached these and other difficulties in the implementation of Yapex, a system for the automatic identification of protein names in text. We also evaluate Yapex under four different notions of correctness and compare its performance to that of another publicly available system for protein name recognition.
Introduction
- applications.
- discuss the role of automatic analysis of text in a specialized domain such as molecular biology (Sections 1.1 1.3)
- discuss the nature of names in this domain and touch on the necessity of detecting named entities as a rst step towards higher levels of analysis and re nement of information (Sections 1.4 1.6)
- describe a system that uses a combination of heuristic pattern matching techniques and full syntactic analysis to find names of proteins in running text (Section 2)
- discuss the general problems connected to the evaluation of such systems and propose an approach to evaluation of multi-word named entities (Sections 3.2 and 4)
- evaluate the modules in our system and compare the system with another protein name tagger on a test corpus along our proposed notions of correctness (Section 3.3).
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