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Information Extraction from BioMedical Abstracts. Dr. Hasan Davulcu Syed Toufeeq Ahmed Deepthi Chidambaram. Information Extraction from BioMedical Abstracts : Motivation. Researchers in Biology and Medical Science spend a large amount of time scanning the literature to get information.
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Information Extraction from BioMedical Abstracts Dr. Hasan Davulcu Syed Toufeeq Ahmed Deepthi Chidambaram
Information Extraction from BioMedical Abstracts : Motivation • Researchers in Biology and Medical Science spend a large amount of time scanning the literature to get information. • PubMed/Medline (has around 12 million biomedical abstracts) is a tremendous source of biomedical knowledge in text form. • An automated system to extract the information would be very useful.
Information Extraction : Goal “HMBA could inhibit the MEC-1 cell proliferation by down-regulation of PCNA expression.” { “HMBA”, “inhibit”, “the MEC-1 cell proliferation” } {“HMBA”, “down-regulation”, “PCNA expression”}
Biomedical Ontologies UMLS, GO, LocusLink OVERVIEW Sentences (Abstracts) Complex Sentence Processor (Deepthi) Link Grammar Parser (Toufeeq) Simple Sentences with Linguistic Roles Interaction Extractor (Toufeeq) Extracted Gene/Gene Interactions