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Title: An overview of biomedical entity linking throughout the years
Biomedical Entity Linking (BEL) is the task of mapping of spans of text within biomedical documents to normalized, unique identifiers within an ontology. This is an important task in natural language processing for both translational information extraction applications and providing context for downstream tasks like relationship extraction. In this paper, we will survey the progression of BEL from its inception in the late 80s to present day state of the art systems, provide a comprehensive list of datasets available for training BEL systems, reference shared tasks focused on BEL, discuss the technical components that comprise BEL systems, and discuss possible directions for the future of the field.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1939951
PAR ID:
10477646
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Elsevier
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Volume:
137
Issue:
C
ISSN:
1532-0464
Page Range / eLocation ID:
104252
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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