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Published on: October 27, 2017
Detecting Gene Symbols and Names in Biological Texts: A First Step toward Pertinent Information Extraction
Abstract:
Gathering data on molecular interactions to be fed into a specialized database has motivated the development of a computer system to help extracting pertinent information from texts, relying on advanced linguistic tools, completed with object-oriented knowledge modeling capabilities. As a first step toward this challenging objective, a program for the identification of gene symbols and names inside sentences has been devised. The main difficulty is that these names and symbols do not appear to follow construction rules. The program is thus made up of a series of sieves of different natures, lexical, morphological and semantic, to distinguish among the words of a sentence those which can only be potential gene symbols or names. Its performance has been evaluated, in terms of coverage and precision ratios, on a corpus of texts concerning D. melanogaster for which the list of names of known genes is available for checking.
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