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There are a few challenges related to the task of biomedical named entity recognition, which are: the existing methods consider a fewer number of biomedical entities (e.g., disease, symptom, proteins, genes); and these methods do not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Shaina Raza , Brian Schwartz

Motivation: State-of-the-art biomedical named entity recognition (BioNER) systems often require handcrafted features specific to each entity type, such as genes, chemicals and diseases. Although recent studies explored using neural network…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Xuan Wang , Yu Zhang , Xiang Ren , Yuhao Zhang , Marinka Zitnik , Jingbo Shang , Curtis Langlotz , Jiawei Han

Biomedical entity linking (BioEL) has achieved remarkable progress with the help of pre-trained language models. However, existing BioEL methods usually struggle to handle rare and difficult entities due to long-tailed distribution. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Zhenxi Lin , Ziheng Zhang , Xian Wu , Yefeng Zheng

We present a weakly-supervised data augmentation approach to improve Named Entity Recognition (NER) in a challenging domain: extracting biomedical entities (e.g., proteins) from the scientific literature. First, we train a neural NER (NNER)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Joel Mathew , Shobeir Fakhraei , José Luis Ambite

Named entity recognition (NER) is the very first step in the linguistic processing of any new domain. It is currently a common process in BioNLP on English clinical text. However, it is still in its infancy in other major languages, as it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Fernando Sánchez León , Ana González Ledesma

Developing high-performance entity normalization algorithms that can alleviate the term variation problem is of great interest to the biomedical community. Although deep learning-based methods have been successfully applied to biomedical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Zongcheng Ji , Qiang Wei , Hua Xu

Biomedical entity linking maps textual mentions to concepts in structured knowledge bases such as UMLS or SNOMED CT. Most existing systems link each mention independently, using only the mention or its surrounding sentence. This ignores…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Adam Remaki , Xavier Tannier , Christel Gérardin

Recognition of biomedical entities from literature is a challenging research focus, which is the foundation for extracting a large amount of biomedical knowledge existing in unstructured texts into structured formats. Using the sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Cong Sun , Zhihao Yang , Lei Wang , Yin Zhang , Hongfei Lin , Jian Wang

Motivation: Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key task to support biomedical research. In Biomedical Named Entity Recognition (BioNER), obtaining high-quality expert annotated data is laborious and expensive, leading to the development of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Liangping Ding , Giovanni Colavizza , Zhixiong Zhang

Biomedical text mining is becoming increasingly important as the number of biomedical documents rapidly grows. With the progress in natural language processing (NLP), extracting valuable information from biomedical literature has gained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Jinhyuk Lee , Wonjin Yoon , Sungdong Kim , Donghyeon Kim , Sunkyu Kim , Chan Ho So , Jaewoo Kang

Background and Objective: Biomedical Named Entity Recognition (BioNER) is a foundational task in medical informatics, crucial for downstream applications like drug discovery and clinical trial matching. However, adapting general-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jian Chen , Leilei Su , Cong Sun

The Biocreative VII Track-2 challenge consists of named entity recognition, entity-linking (or entity-normalization), and topic indexing tasks -- with entities and topics limited to chemicals for this challenge. Named entity recognition is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Virginia Adams , Hoo-Chang Shin , Carol Anderson , Bo Liu , Anas Abidin

Biomedical Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a challenging problem in biomedical information processing due to the widespread ambiguity of out of context terms and extensive lexical variations. Performance on bioNER benchmarks continues to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Shreyas Sharma , Ron Daniel

Biomedical named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in text mining of medical documents and has many applications. Deep learning based approaches to this task have been gaining increasing attention in recent years as their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Devendra Singh Sachan , Pengtao Xie , Mrinmaya Sachan , Eric P Xing

Named entity recognition (NER) is a widely applicable natural language processing task and building block of question answering, topic modeling, information retrieval, etc. In the medical domain, NER plays a crucial role by extracting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Veysel Kocaman , David Talby

ClinicalEncoder26AM is a multilingual Diagnosable ColBERT for clinical and biomedical texts, which aligns at multiple levels its token-level semantic with ClinicalMap25, a clinical latent space inspired by BioLORD-2023 and enriched with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 François Remy

Biomedical Named Entity Recognition presents significant challenges due to the complexity of biomedical terminology and inconsistencies in annotation across datasets. This paper introduces SRU-NER (Slot-based Recurrent Unit NER), a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 João Ruano , Gonçalo M. Correia , Leonor Barreiros , Afonso Mendes

Biomedical named entity recognition (BNER) serves as the foundation for numerous biomedical text mining tasks. Unlike general NER, BNER require a comprehensive grasp of the domain, and incorporating external knowledge beyond training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Junyi Bian , Rongze Jiang , Weiqi Zhai , Tianyang Huang , Hong Zhou , Shanfeng Zhu

Disease name recognition and normalization, which is generally called biomedical entity linking, is a fundamental process in biomedical text mining. Recently, neural joint learning of both tasks has been proposed to utilize the mutual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Shogo Ujiie , Hayate Iso , Shuntaro Yada , Shoko Wakamiya , Eiji Aramaki

Automated relation extraction (RE) from biomedical literature is critical for many downstream text mining applications in both research and real-world settings. However, most existing benchmarking datasets for bio-medical RE only focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Ling Luo , Po-Ting Lai , Chih-Hsuan Wei , Cecilia N Arighi , Zhiyong Lu