Disease named entity recognition from biomedical literature using a novel convolutional neural network

• Main Authors: Zhehuan Zhao (Author), Zhihao Yang (Author), Ling Luo (Author), Lei Wang (Author), Yin Zhang (Author), Hongfei Lin (Author), Jian Wang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Automatic disease named entity recognition (DNER) is of utmost importance for development of more sophisticated BioNLP tools. However, most conventional CRF based DNER systems rely on well-designed features whose selection is labor intensive and time-consuming. Though most deep l...