Publications by authors named "Ewan Klein"
Genome Biol
December 2008
Article Synopsis
- The University of Edinburgh team developed a natural language processing (NLP) system to assist in curating biomedical research papers, aiming to make the curation process easier for biologists.
- Their system excelled in interaction subtasks and performed well in gene mention tasks with minimal effort, while a string matching technique for gene normalization showed close to average results.
- Although the technology is effective for individual tasks, complex tasks requiring multiple components, like detecting and normalizing interacting protein pairs, remain difficult for current NLP systems.
Pac Symp Biocomput
March 2008
Article Synopsis
- Text mining has potential to enhance biomedical text curation, but there’s limited evidence of its actual effectiveness.
- Three experiments were conducted to see how Natural Language Processing (NLP) can speed up the curation process for protein-protein interactions (PPIs) and to gather curator feedback on the usability of an NLP-integrated curation tool.
- The findings suggest that if NLP output were perfectly accurate, curation time could be sped up by a maximum of one third, but more research is needed to validate curators' preferences for consistent and high-recall NLP outputs.
