Machine learning and word sense disambiguation in the biomedical domain: design and evaluation issues

Hua Xu¹ , Marianthi Markatou² , Rositsa Dimova² , Hongfang Liu³ and Carol Friedman¹

¹Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, 622 168^th St, New York City, New York, USA

²Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University, 722 168^th St, New York City, New York, USA

³Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics, Georgetown University Medical Center, 4000 Reservoir Rd, Washington DC, USA