Biomedical NER Task

A Biomedical NER Task is an NER task that focuses on Biomedical Named Entity Mentions (of biomedical entities).

• Context:
  • It can be solved by a Biomedical NER System.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Legal NER Task.
  • a Computing Science NER Task.
• See: Protein NER, Organism NER, BioCreAtIvE Task, GENIA Corpus.

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References

2006

• (Tasi et al., 2006) ⇒ Tzong-han Tsai, Wen-Chi Chou, Shih-Hung Wu, Ting-Yi Sung, Jieh Hsiang, and Wen-Lian Hsu. (2006). “Integrating Linguistic Knowledge into a Conditional Random Field Framework to Identify Biomedical Named Entities.” In: Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal, 30(1). doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2005.09.072

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