Recognition of biomedical entities in text

Recognition of biomedical entities in text (genes, proteins, allelic variants, clinical phenotype descriptions, etc.)... 

NLP techniques provide the basis to extract this kind of more detailed information. In the past years approaches have been developed that are mainly focused on the biomedical domain to extract protein-protein interactions60 and gene-disease relations.61 They are based upon the correct recognition of the named entities taking part in the relationship. Dedicated patterns have to be developed to identify all the phrasal constructs that are indicative of relationships between chemical and biomedical entities available in text being of interest for academic researchers and the pharmaceutical industry. 

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