This article is part of the supplement: Fourth International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Biomedical Informatics (DTMBio) 2010
Proceedings
Word sense disambiguation for event trigger word detection in biomedicine
1 NICTA VRL, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
2 Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12(Suppl 2):S4 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-S2-S4
Published: 29 March 2011Abstract
This paper describes a method for detecting event trigger words in biomedical text based on a word sense disambiguation (WSD) approach. We first investigate the applicability of existing WSD techniques to trigger word disambiguation in the BioNLP 2009 shared task data, and find that we are able to outperform a traditional CRF-based approach for certain word types. On the basis of this finding, we combine the WSD approach with the CRF, and obtain significant improvements over the standalone CRF, gaining particularly in recall.
