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New article by Lenz Furrer, Anna Jancso, Nicola Colic and Fabio Rinaldi

«OGER++: hybrid multi-type entity recognition» – new article by Lenz Furrer, Anna Jancso, Nicola Colic and Fabio Rinaldi just published in the Journal of Cheminformatics

 

Abstract:
We present a text-mining tool for recognizing biomedical entities in scientific literature. OGER++ is a hybrid system for named entity recognition and concept recognition (linking), which combines a dictionary-based annotator with a corpus-based disambiguation component. The annotator uses an efficient look-up strategy combined with a normalization method for matching spelling variants. The disambiguation classifier is implemented as a feed-forward neural network which acts as a postfilter to the previous step.
Results: We evaluated the system in terms of processing speed and annotation quality. In the speed benchmarks, the OGER++ web service processes 9.7 abstracts or 0.9 full-text documents per second. On the CRAFT corpus, we achieved 71.4% and 56.7% F1 for named entity recognition and concept recognition, respectively.
Conclusions: Combining knowledge-based and data-driven components allows creating a system with competitive performance in biomedical text mining.

Full text:
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-018-0326-3