The Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition presents practical tools
and techniques for implementing natural language processing in computer systems. Along …

Abstract Information Extraction (IE) techniques aim to extract the names of entities and
objects from text and to identify the roles that they play in event descriptions. IE systems …

Background Text mining in the biomedical domain is receiving increasing attention. A key
component of this process is named entity recognition (NER). Generally speaking, two …

Before undertaking new biomedical research, identifying concepts that have already been
patented is essential. A traditional keyword-based search on patent databases may not be …

Dictionary-based biological concept extraction is still the state-of-the-art approach to large-
scale biomedical literature annotation and indexing. The exact dictionary lookup is a very …

Twitter is a popular social media site on which people post millions of Tweets every day. As
patients often share their experiences with drugs on Twitter, Tweets can also be considered …

Disclosed herein is a method for comparing documents. The method includes the steps of:
determining a plurality of similarity measures; and determining an overall similarity measure …

Biomedical text plays a fundamental role in knowledge discovery in life science, in both
basic research (in the field of bioinformatics) and in industry sectors devoted to improving …

In this paper we present a new method for the extraction of discipline-specific terms from
medical documents. Due to the small text corpora and the specific nature of medical …

Before undertaking new biomedical research, identifying concepts that have already been
patented is essential. Traditional keyword based search on patent databases may not be …