Recognizing names in biomedical texts using hidden Markov model and SVM plus sigmoid

  • Authors:
  • Zhou GuoDong

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • JNLPBA '04 Proceedings of the International Joint Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine and its Applications
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a named entity recognition system in the biomedical domain, called PowerBioNE. In order to deal with the special phenomena in the biomedical domain, various evidential features are proposed and integrated through a Hidden Markov Model (HMM). In addition, a Support Vector Machine (SVM) plus sigmoid is proposed to resolve the data sparseness problem in our system. Finally, we present two post-processing modules to deal with the cascaded entity name and abbreviation phenomena. Evaluation shows that our system achieves the F-measure of 69.1 and 71.2 on the 23 classes of GENIA V1.1 and V3.0 respectively. In particular, our system achieves the F-measure of 77.8 on the "protein" class of GENIA V3.0. It shows that our system outperforms the best published system on GENIA V1.1 and V3.0.