NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION IN BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE USING TWO-LAYER SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES

Feng Liu, Yifei Chen, Bernard Manderick

2007

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a named entity recognition system for biomedical literature using two-layer support vector machines. In addition, we employ a post-processing module called a boundary check module to eliminate some boundary errors, which can lead to improved system performance. Our system doesn’t make use of any external lexical resources and hence it is a fairly simple system. Furthermore, with carefully designed features and introducing a second layer, our system can recognize named entities in biomedical literature with fairly high accuracy, which can achieve the precision of 83.5%, recall of 80.8% and balanced Fβ=1 score of 82.1%, an approximate state of the art performance for the moment.

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Liu F., Chen Y. and Manderick B. (2007). NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION IN BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE USING TWO-LAYER SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-89-4, pages 39-45. DOI: 10.5220/0002357300390045


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@conference{iceis07,
author={Feng Liu and Yifei Chen and Bernard Manderick},
title={NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION IN BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE USING TWO-LAYER SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={39-45},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002357300390045},
isbn={978-972-8865-89-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION IN BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE USING TWO-LAYER SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES
SN - 978-972-8865-89-4
AU - Liu F.
AU - Chen Y.
AU - Manderick B.
PY - 2007
SP - 39
EP - 45
DO - 10.5220/0002357300390045