Active learning for ontological event extraction incorporating named entity recognition and unknown word handling

• Main Authors: Han, Xu, Kim, Jung-jae, Kwoh, Chee Keong
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Active learning; Biomedical natural language processing; Information extraction
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81505; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40808
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Background: Biomedical text mining may target various kinds of valuable information embedded in the literature, but a critical obstacle to the extension of the mining targets is the cost of manual construction of labeled data, which are required for state-of-the-art supervised learning systems. Acti...