• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.111-120
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• 2015

Protein named entity identification is one of the most essential and fundamental predecessor for extracting information about protein-protein interactions from biomedical literature. In this paper, we explore the use of abstracts of biomedical literature in MEDLINE for protein name identification and present the results of the conducted experiments. We present a robust and effective approach to classify biomedical named entities into protein and non-protein classes, based on a rich set of features: orthographic, keyword, morphological and newly introduced Protein-Score features. Our procedure shows significant performance in the experiments on GENIA corpus using Random Forest, achieving the highest values of precision 92.7%, recall 91.7%, and F-measure 92.2% for protein identification, while reducing the training and testing time significantly.

• Genomics & Informatics
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.27.1-27.4
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• 2021

Due to the rapid evolution of high-throughput technologies, a tremendous amount of data is being produced in the biological domain, which poses a challenging task for information extraction and natural language understanding. Biological named entity recognition (NER) and named entity normalisation (NEN) are two common tasks aiming at identifying and linking biologically important entities such as genes or gene products mentioned in the literature to biological databases. In this paper, we present an updated version of OryzaGP, a gene and protein dataset for rice species created to help natural language processing (NLP) tools in processing NER and NEN tasks. To create the dataset, we selected more than 15,000 abstracts associated with articles previously curated for rice genes. We developed four dictionaries of gene and protein names associated with database identifiers. We used these dictionaries to annotate the dataset. We also annotated the dataset using pretrained NLP models. Finally, we analysed the annotation results and discussed how to improve OryzaGP.

• Genomics & Informatics
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.17.1-17.3
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• 2019

Text mining has become an important research method in biology, with its original purpose to extract biological entities, such as genes, proteins and phenotypic traits, to extend knowledge from scientific papers. However, few thorough studies on text mining and application development, for plant molecular biology data, have been performed, especially for rice, resulting in a lack of datasets available to solve named-entity recognition tasks for this species. Since there are rare benchmarks available for rice, we faced various difficulties in exploiting advanced machine learning methods for accurate analysis of the rice literature. To evaluate several approaches to automatically extract information from gene/protein entities, we built a new dataset for rice as a benchmark. This dataset is composed of a set of titles and abstracts, extracted from scientific papers focusing on the rice species, and is downloaded from PubMed. During the 5th Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon, a portion of the dataset was uploaded to PubAnnotation for sharing. Our ultimate goal is to offer a shared task of rice gene/protein name recognition through the BioNLP Open Shared Tasks framework using the dataset, to facilitate an open comparison and evaluation of different approaches to the task.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.227-248
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• 2017

This paper introduces an integrated model for systematically constructing a linguistic resource database that can be used by machine learning-based biomedical information extraction systems. The proposed method suggests an orderly process of collecting and constructing dictionaries and training sets for both named-entity recognition and relation extraction. Multiple heterogeneous structures for the resources which are collected from diverse sources are analyzed to derive essential items and fields for constructing the integrated database. All the collected resources are converted and refined to build an integrated linguistic resource storage. In this paper, we constructed entity dictionaries of gene, protein, disease and drug, which are considered core linguistic elements or core named entities in the biomedical domains and conducted verification tests to measure their acceptability.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Bioinformatics Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.95-100
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose solutions to resolve the problem of many spelling variants and the problem of lack of annotated corpus for training, which are two among the main difficulties in named entity recognition in biomedical domain. To resolve the problem of spotting valiants, we propose a use of edit-distance as a feature for SVM. And we propose a use of virtual examples to automatically expand the annotated corpus to resolve the lack-of-corpus problem. Using virtual examples, the annotated corpus can be extended in a fast, efficient and easy way. The experimental results show that the introduction of edit-distance produces some improvements in protein name recognition performance. And the model, which is trained with the corpus expanded by virtual examples, outperforms the model trained with the original corpus. According to the proposed methods, we finally achieve the performance 75.80 in F-measure(71.89% in precision,80.15% in recall) in the experiment of protein name recognition on GENIA corpus (ver.3.0).

• 한국어정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.321-323
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• 2016

최근 연구에서 기계학습 중 지도학습 방법으로 개체명 인식을 하고 있다. 그러나 지도 학습 방법은 데이터를 만드는 비용과 시간이 많이 필요로 한다. 본 연구에서는 주석 된 말뭉치를 사용하여 지도 학습 방법을 사용 한다. 의생명 개체명 인식은 Protein, RNA, DNA, Cell type, Cell line 등을 포함한 텍스트 처리에 중요한 기초 작업입니다. 그리고 의생명 지식 검색에서 가장 기본과 핵심 작업 중 하나이다. 본 연구에서는 순환형 신경망과 워드 임베딩을 자질로 사용한 조건적 임의 필드에 대한 성능을 비교한다. 조건적 임의 필드에 N_Gram만을 자질로 사용한 것을 기준점으로 설정 하였고, 기준점의 결과는 70.09% F1 Score이다. RNN의 jordan type은 60.75% F1 Score, elman type은 58.80% F1 Score의 성능을 보여준다. 조건적 임의 필드에 CCA, GLOVE, WORD2VEC을 사용 한 결과는 각각 72.73% F1 Score, 72.74% F1 Score, 72.82% F1 Score의 성능을 얻을 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Bioinformatics Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.3-3
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• 2003

With biomedical literature expanding so rapidly, there is an urgent need to discover and organize knowledge extracted from texts. Although factual databases contain crucial information the overwhelming amount of new knowledge remains in textual form (e.g. MEDLINE). In addition, new terms are constantly coined as the relationships linking new genes, drugs, proteins etc. As the size of biomedical literature is expanding, more systems are applying a variety of methods to automate the process of knowledge acquisition and management. In my talk, I focus on the project, GENIA, of our group at the University of Tokyo, the objective of which is to construct an information extraction system of protein - protein interaction from abstracts of MEDLINE. The talk includes (1) Techniques we use fDr named entity recognition (1-a) SOHMM (Self-organized HMM) (1-b) Maximum Entropy Model (1-c) Lexicon-based Recognizer (2) Treatment of term variants and acronym finders (3) Event extraction using a full parser (4) Linguistic resources for text mining (GENIA corpus) (4-a) Semantic Tags (4-b) Structural Annotations (4-c) Co-reference tags (4-d) GENIA ontology I will also talk about possible extension of our work that links the findings of molecular biology with clinical findings, and claim that textual based or conceptual based biology would be a viable alternative to system biology that tends to emphasize the role of simulation models in bioinformatics.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.321-323
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• 2016

최근 연구에서 기계학습 중 지도학습 방법으로 개체명 인식을 하고 있다. 그러나 지도 학습 방법은 데이터를 만드는 비용과 시간이 많이 필요로 한다. 본 연구에서는 주석 된 말뭉치를 사용하여 지도 학습 방법을 사용 한다. 의생명 개체명 인식은 Protein, RNA, DNA, Cell type, Cell line 등을 포함한 텍스트 처리에 중요한 기초 작업입니다. 그리고 의생명 지식 검색에서 가장 기본과 핵심 작업 중 하나이다. 본 연구에서는 순환형 신경망과 워드 임베딩을 자질로 사용한 조건적 임의 필드에 대한 성능을 비교한다. 조건적 임의 필드에 N_Gram만을 자질로 사용한 것을 기준점으로 설정 하였고, 기준점의 결과는 70.09% F1 Score이다. RNN의 jordan type은 60.75% F1 Score, elman type은 58.80% F1 Score의 성능을 보여준다. 조건적 임의 필드에 CCA, GLOVE, WORD2VEC을 사용 한 결과는 각각 72.73% F1 Score, 72.74% F1 Score, 72.82% F1 Score의 성능을 얻을 수 있다.