iSimp in BioC standard format: enhancing the interoperability of a sentence simplification system
This article reports the use of the BioC standard format in our sentence simplification system, iSimp, and demonstrates its general utility. iSimp is designed to simplify complex sentences commonly found in the biomedical text, and has been shown to improve existing text mining applications that rel...
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Published in | Database : the journal of biological databases and curation Vol. 2014; p. bau038 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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England
Oxford University Press
2014
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Summary: | This article reports the use of the BioC standard format in our sentence simplification system, iSimp, and demonstrates its general utility. iSimp is designed to simplify complex sentences commonly found in the biomedical text, and has been shown to improve existing text mining applications that rely on the analysis of sentence structures. By adopting the BioC format, we aim to make iSimp readily interoperable with other applications in the biomedical domain. To examine the utility of iSimp in BioC, we implemented a rule-based relation extraction system that uses iSimp as a preprocessing module and BioC for data exchange. Evaluation on the training corpus of BioNLP-ST 2011 GENIA Event Extraction (GE) task showed that iSimp sentence simplification improved the recall by 3.2% without reducing precision. The iSimp simplification-annotated corpora, both our previously used corpus and the GE corpus in the current study, have been converted into the BioC format and made publicly available at the project's Web site: http://research.bioinformatics.udel.edu/isimp/. Database URL:http://research.bioinformatics.udel.edu/isimp/ |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Citation details: Peng,Y., Tudor,C.O., Torii,M. et al. iSimp in BioC standard format: enhancing the interoperability of a sentence simplification system. Database (2014) Vol. 2014: article ID bau038; doi:10.1093/database/bau038 |
ISSN: | 1758-0463 1758-0463 |
DOI: | 10.1093/database/bau038 |