Text mining

Methods in Molecular Biology
Andrew B Clegg, Adrian J Shepherd

Abstract

One of the fastest-growing fields in bioinformatics is text mining: the application of natural language processing techniques to problems of knowledge management and discovery, using large collections of biological or biomedical text such as MEDLINE. The techniques used in text mining range from the very simple (e.g., the inference of relationships between genes from frequent proximity in documents) to the complex and computationally intensive (e.g., the analysis of sentence structures with parsers in order to extract facts about protein-protein interactions from statements in the text). This chapter presents a general introduction to some of the key principles and challenges of natural language processing, and introduces some of the tools available to end-users and developers. A case study describes the construction and testing of a simple tool designed to tackle a task that is crucial to almost any application of text mining in bioinformatics--identifying gene/protein names in text and mapping them onto records in an external database.

Citations

May 22, 2009·Briefings in Bioinformatics·Erick AntezanaVladimir Mironov
Jan 20, 2011·Database : the Journal of Biological Databases and Curation·Zhiyong Lu

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